"Are you serious?" Michael barked at the photo in his hand. The image showed his great-uncle, the war hero who supposedly saved countless lives, looking far too comfortable with a group of soldiers, all of them raising their glasses in a toast. The background of the picture looked suspiciously like a bar.

He pinched the bridge of his nose, feeling a headache begin to throb behind his eyes. His grandmother always spoke of his heroics with such conviction. He huffed. What a fraud.

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