The thought of his cousin, Ben, actually attempting to sell the old family photo album made something inside him snap. It was like a violation. He stormed into the living room, his face a mask of frustration.

He saw Ben flipping through the pages, his expression a mixture of boredom and detached curiosity. The album held his entire family history. It was precious. He felt his hands begin to tremble.

“Look at these pictures of grandpa, haha!” Ben guffawed, pointing at a photo of his grandfather as a boy. He felt his cheeks grow warm with anger. He would not let Ben sell that album. No way.

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
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🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224