He’d always felt…different. A subtle disconnect he’d brushed off as teenage angst. Now, staring at the results – a list of names and percentages he didn't recognize – that unease blossomed into a corrosive bitterness. His stomach churned. He felt a deep, profound resentment.

He trashed the kitchen, not out of malice but a visceral need to *destroy* the bland, everyday reality that had suddenly felt so fragile. Plates shattered against the walls, the sound oddly satisfying. The toaster was next.

He sank to the floor, surrounded by the debris of his breakfast. The air felt thin, his head spinning. He couldn't remember the last time he felt so utterly adrift, so out of control. The silence, when it came, was worse than the chaos.

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