The phone vibrated again. Another text from Sarah, chirping about the team lunch. Daniel tossed the phone onto the bed. He felt like his head was going to explode. The hiring manager had practically winked at her during the interview.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. He’d spent the last month working himself ragged on a freelance project, all to build up his portfolio. Now, it felt like a complete waste of time. He was back where he started, and Sarah, his friend, was going to be successful.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he grabbed his headphones and cranked up the music, hoping to drown out the noise in his head. The bass vibrated against his skull.

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