"Seriously?" Mark muttered, his voice barely a whisper. He’d discovered a collection of taxidermied animals, their glassy eyes fixed on nothing. A squirrel, a fox, a pheasant - all mounted and gathering dust. The previous occupants clearly had… eccentric tastes.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture a clear display of his ire. He'd been looking for extra storage space, not a macabre museum. He kicked at a box, sending a cloud of dust into the already cluttered space. This was not the day he had planned.

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