Liam ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt a tremor in his gut, a cold knot tightening. His diary! The one he'd poured his heart into for years. Now, everyone could read about his awkward first kiss, his disastrous attempt at skateboarding, his embarrassing obsession with anime. He felt a stinging sensation behind his eyes; he just needed to make it stop. He slammed his fist onto the desk, rattling the keyboard. "Damn it," he whispered, the word laced with frustration.

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