"Well, this is just great," she sighed, the words escaping on a puff of air. The glitter on the invitations, the sparkly confetti she'd painstakingly sprinkled across the dining table, seemed to mock her. Her stomach churned. The thought of all the wasted effort, all the energy spent on something that would never happen, brought a fresh wave of irritation. She grabbed the bottle of champagne from the fridge, popped the cork with unnecessary force, and poured herself a glass.

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