He walked through the house, his steps heavy, his posture slumped. He looked at the half-finished cake on the counter. He looked at the balloons, a riot of color now deflated and sad. He looked at the empty chairs, the space where laughter should have been. A sigh escaped him, a sound that carried the weight of disappointment and a sense of profound, weary resignation. He ran his hand over his face, as if trying to physically wipe away the sting of it all.

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