"Unbelievable," Clara breathed, her voice cracking slightly. She’d been looking forward to some quiet time with a good book, the used copy of *Little Women* a small comfort in a chaotic world.

Now, though, as she opened the book, a small piece of paper slid out, landing softly on her lap. She glared at it, her shoulders tensing. She didn't want this. She tossed the note aside with a huff. She wanted to relax, not deal with this new burden.

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