The headache began as a dull throb behind his eyes and quickly escalated into a full-blown migraine. Michael leaned his forehead against the cool glass of the window, trying to find some relief. The accusation felt like a physical weight, pressing down on him, crushing him.

He closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, but the tension remained. He wanted to lash out, to scream, to tear the room apart. He could feel his hands trembling, his stomach churning. He could taste the bitterness of the situation in his mouth.

He imagined the professor, the smug look on his face. He felt another wave of anger, stronger than the last. He bit his lip, trying to contain the fury. This was going to be a long, difficult ordeal.

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