It wasn't the champagne, but the sheer absurdity of the situation that made Olivia's head spin. She stared at the other woman, whose wedding ring glinted under the chandelier. "He said he was single," the woman stated, her voice trembling. Olivia wanted to laugh, a wild, hysterical sound. Instead, she took a long, slow breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure. She focused on the intricate patterns of the tablecloth, a futile attempt to ground herself.

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