He stared at the glowing screen, a muscle in his cheek twitching. He had poured his heart and soul into that essay, "The Ballad of the Bus Stop Bench." Now, it was being used as an example for other students. He felt the blood begin to boil within his chest.

The irony was not lost on him. He had written about loneliness, about the awkwardness of adolescence. Now, thanks to the internet, he would feel even more exposed. He slammed his fist on the table, which wasn't loud enough to satisfy his anger. He stood, pacing the small confines of his apartment.

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