The vibrant colors of the art studio swam before Chloe's eyes. She’d always loved Eleanor Vance’s stories, finding inspiration in their imagery. She had always found herself reading her work. Now, the canvas she had been working on, a painting inspired by Vance's work, felt like a mockery. She had spent a year working on it, pouring her heart and soul into the painting, only to discover that Eleanor had used her concept.

She tossed her paintbrush onto the table, the bristles splattering paint across the pristine white surface. All the time she had spent, the dedication, now felt like a waste. A tremor ran through her, leaving her feeling shaky.

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