“Are you kidding me?” Ben practically roared, flinging his phone onto the couch. His screenplay, his masterpiece, was now being produced under another man's name, without any credit. He paced his apartment, muttering under his breath.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The frustration was making him physically ill. He felt a strange pressure building behind his eyes. He had spent years writing, struggling, dreaming and this was the payoff?

He collapsed onto the couch, feeling the cushions press into his back. The apartment, once a sanctuary for his creative spirit, now felt like a trap. The walls seemed to be closing in.

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