The clinking of ice in her gin and tonic seemed impossibly loud in the suddenly silent living room. Margaret stared at her daughter, Chloe, who was now wearing a brightly colored headscarf. This wasn't the daughter who'd mocked her own, conservative dress sense at Christmas. She pinched the bridge of her nose, fighting back a sudden, unwelcome headache. The sun streamed in the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, each one a tiny, irritating reminder of the world’s chaos.

"But...what about the family dinners, Chloe?" Margaret finally managed, her voice barely a whisper. The gin tasted bitter.

Emotion: exasperated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.99 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion exasperated. 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 exasperated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the exasperated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the exasperated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.435
l0.378
P0.331
que0.320
la0.269
Suppressed:
own-0.433
gradually-0.254
soon-0.248
unfolding-0.216
joyful-0.216