He threw the book onto the floor with a resounding thump. *The Count of Monte Cristo* – another failure. He’d spent his whole Saturday searching used bookstores. He needed a distraction, something to take his mind off things. Instead, he got this.

A small, folded note floated out, landing at his feet. He stared at it, his jaw working silently. He kicked it into the corner and stalked away, leaving the discarded letter and the forgotten book to gather dust.

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