"No way," Leo breathed, his voice barely a whisper. He stared at the email on his screen, the words blurring slightly. He felt his face flush with heat. He’d just spent a significant amount of money on a 'business opportunity' that Daniel had pitched him. Daniel, who had supposedly been working as a highly successful real estate agent. Now, it turned out Daniel was actually... a *gardener*?

He leaned back in his chair, the cheap plastic creaking under his weight. The sheer gall of it! He ran his hand over his close-cropped hair, feeling the rough stubble. This was more than just a lie. It was a betrayal. He felt a sudden, intense urge 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