The water hose. He picked it up with a jerky movement, pointing it at the offending beagle. A thin spray arced across the lawn. "Out," he gritted, the word barely a whisper.

He was wearing his best shirt. He'd been looking forward to his afternoon coffee on the porch. Now, there was a dog to be removed from the petunias.

The beagle continued to sniff the ground, seemingly unconcerned. He lowered the hose. He really needed to get a grip. This was starting to get ridiculous.

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