"What?!" Liam exclaimed, his voice rising in pitch. The professor, a kindly older woman, winced. He’d marched directly to her office after class, the test clutched tightly in his sweaty palm. Fifty-nine percent. Liam felt a searing heat crawl up his neck. He'd poured his heart and soul into that essay, researched extensively, cited meticulously. "There must be some mistake," he insisted, his voice cracking. He felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to pace.

Emotion: annoyed

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.59 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.27

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion annoyed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 annoyed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the annoyed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the annoyed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.376
😠0.251
0.249
🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224