The balloons, a cheerful rainbow of latex, suddenly seemed to mock her. Sarah kicked at a rogue helium-filled number eight, sending it bouncing off the kitchen cabinet. She’d spent the whole damn afternoon baking a cake, a triple-layer chocolate masterpiece with buttercream roses, only to have it all be for naught. A text. One single, devastating text. "Party off. Something came up. So sorry." Her jaw clenched. The scent of burnt sugar filled the air – a fitting aroma, she decided.

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