He let out a short, sharp bark of laughter, a sound devoid of mirth. The audacity! He'd been parked there for years. He always was! He had to be dreaming, or maybe someone was playing a cruel joke on him.

He slammed his fist against the hood of the neighbor’s car, just to have something to do. The metal vibrated under his knuckles. He needed to get this sorted out, and fast.

His heart pounded in his chest. This was a complete and utter disaster. He stalked back inside his house, the taste of bile rising in his throat.

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