He kicked the box, the impact a sharp crack that echoed in the empty apartment. The package bounced against the wall, then settled, mocking him with its presence. This was just ridiculous.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. Every time! He’d been meaning to call the shipping company, the post office, the ghost of the previous tenant – anyone who could make this stop.

He grabbed his coat and keys, needing air, freedom. He was abandoning the package.

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