Her stomach twisted into a painful knot. Sarah was looking at her own book, but the cover said someone else had written it. Her novel, her *baby*, was now bearing a stranger's name. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a knot of fury.

She wanted to scream. She had spent years writing and editing, crafting the perfect narrative. And now, it was gone, stolen, and published under another name.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. The once vibrant colors of her apartment seemed muted, washed out. She sank into a chair, feeling the weight of the world pressing down on her.

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