He stared at the photograph, his own. It was a picture of a street corner in Tokyo, a candid moment he’d captured years ago. Now, it was blown up, stretched, and printed on a cheap poster, being sold for a hefty price.

The gallery buzzed with chatter. He felt a sharp pressure behind his eyes. He had to clench his teeth to keep from screaming.

The gall of it! He hadn’t given his permission. He wanted to smash that display. He wanted to go home and lock himself in a room for a week.

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