The digital clock on her laptop glared back at her, the red numbers mocking her. Sixty-four. Amelia stared at the grade, her vision blurring. She slammed the laptop shut with a loud thud that startled her cat, who jumped from its perch on the bookshelf. She stood up abruptly, her chair scraping against the hardwood floor. She needed air. She needed to escape this feeling of profound disappointment. She grabbed her keys and bolted out the door.

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