He slammed his locker shut, the metal echoing down the deserted hallway. “Well, that’s just fantastic,” Mark muttered, his jaw clenched tight. Coach Miller, the man who had turned him from a benchwarmer into a star, was retiring. A memo, that's all. No final pep talk. No handshakes. No nothing. Mark kicked the locker again, harder this time. The metal groaned in protest. He felt a cold dread creep into his bones. What was he supposed to do now?

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