The air in the library, usually a haven of quiet concentration, felt charged with a strange, unpleasant energy. Ben slammed his laptop shut, the sudden noise startling the few other students present. His face was flushed, his jaw tight. The news about the university, the news that he'd been dreading, had finally arrived.

He pushed his chair back with a scraping sound and stood abruptly, his movements jerky and agitated. He'd spent years studying, sacrificing, building towards something. And now, he wanted to just disappear.

He shoved his books into his backpack with furious efficiency, not caring if they were properly stowed. He strode out of the library, leaving the quiet hum of the room behind.

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