The champagne flute in Amelia's hand felt like a lead weight. She tightened her grip, knuckles white, as she spotted Liam across the crowded dance floor. Figures, she thought. The universe was having a laugh, wasn't it? Of all the weddings, of all the places, of all the goddamn possibilities, she had to run into *him* here.

She plastered on a smile, a grimace masquerading as cheer. Her stomach churned. She really needed to sit down, preferably somewhere far, far away from that perfectly sculpted jawline and those infuriatingly charming eyes.

"Amelia!" Her best friend, Sarah, squealed, pulling her into a hug. "Isn't this amazing? Did you see the cake?" Amelia managed a weak nod, her gaze darting towards Liam, who was now engaged in what looked like a very animated conversation with Sarah's sister. Damn it all.

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