The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to calm Eleanor's nerves. She’d spent the last hour at her computer, trying to find a good lawyer. She’d have to go through all that. Just over a fence!

She could feel a tremor in her hands as she clicked on the search bar again, feeling the tight bands in her chest. The whole situation felt absurd.

Her neighbor's overly cheerful voice, that of a man who’d just won the lottery, floated across the garden. She wanted to scream.

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