Sarah could feel the blood thrumming behind her eyes. Another late night. Another empty coffee cup. And now, this. The scattered pages, carelessly strewn across her desk, were undeniably hers. Her roommate, Chloe, was asleep, snoring softly in her bed. Sarah stared, unblinking, at the entry she'd composed the previous night. The private thoughts laid bare for all to see.

A sudden, sharp pain flared in her chest. She grabbed her bag and stomped outside.

The cool night air did little to soothe the heat that washed over her. She knew she'd have to say something, but the words were a jumbled mess in her head.

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