"So," David said, forcing a smile that felt brittle, "you’re...also into antique maps?" He gestured towards the framed parchment on the wall, the same one he and "Sarah" had admired last week. The woman across from him, who *looked* like his girlfriend but was apparently *also* dating the guy, just sighed, running a hand through her hair. The knot in his stomach tightened. He wanted to get up, walk out, and set the entire apartment on fire.

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