The sales figures swam before David's eyes, mocking him. He leaned back in his chair, trying to process the information. The marketing department, with its lively campaigns and innovative concepts, was now a distant memory. He’d been thrust into the sales department, a world of quotas and aggressive tactics. The pressure was intense.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble on his cheeks. He felt a throbbing sensation in his jaw, and he realized he was clenching his teeth. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to be getting brighter, each flicker a fresh assault on his senses. He needed to get out of here. He glanced at the clock, willing the time to pass faster.

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