The room began to spin. Her father, the rock of their family, the man who built his life around a set of unwavering values, announced he was embracing a new faith. The words seemed to hang in the air, thick and suffocating. She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The silence, after his pronouncement, was deafening. She watched, frozen, as the room around her seemed to shrink.

She wanted to scream. Instead, she could only manage a weak, "But… Dad?"

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