The silence felt deafening. David stood frozen in place, staring at the slightly askew bookshelf. His journal, always hidden behind his collection of vinyl records, was now…resting on top of them. He slowly reached out, his fingers trembling, and picked it up. A post-it note, with a smiley face, was stuck to the cover.

He wanted to throw up.

His roommate, Kevin, walked in, whistling. “Hey, dude! Nice journal!”

David’s knuckles were white as he clenched his fists.

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