“Look, honey! Your perfect handwriting!” his mother exclaimed, beaming and holding up a composition book. Mark stared at the book, his gaze fixed on the perfectly formed letters. His mother had been so excited when he had gotten her the book at a yard sale and told her to write in it. He just stared in the silence.

He imagined all his writing in the past, all his writing in the present, and all his writing in the future.

He wanted to disappear.

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