"Just…just give me a moment," Emily mumbled under her breath. She took a long, slow breath, trying to steady her nerves. She'd been moved from her beloved finance position to the art department. She'd never been around that creative bunch before. She hadn't an artistic bone in her body. The sheer contrast was jarring.

She eyed the paint splattered canvases and the general chaos with a mixture of bewilderment and dread. She wanted to laugh. She wanted to cry. She didn't know what she wanted. She felt the urge to start chewing on her fingernails. She pushed her chair back, the squeak of the wheels echoing in the room. This was ridiculous.

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