The lecture hall felt stifling. The professor, a man she vaguely remembered from a freshman orientation, was using her essay, "My Love Affair with the Library," as an example of good writing. Olivia felt her cheeks burn with embarrassment.

She shifted in her seat, trying to become invisible. The other students, young and vibrant, seemed to be enjoying the lecture. She felt a surge of resentment. She wanted to escape, to disappear into the crowd. She focused intently on her notes, desperately trying to shut out the professor’s droning voice, and the sound of her own words echoing through the room.

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