"He's lonely, Jack!" Leo had said, cradling the snake. The snake, a pale, lifeless creature, was wrapped around his arm. Jack stared, mouth agape, at the reptile. He shuddered.

He'd made it very clear that there were to be no pets, not even those that supposedly didn't require any care. Now, the living room had a new resident and all he could think of was how he was going to escape the apartment. He felt a sudden chill, a sense of confinement he couldn't shake. He started to feel slightly nauseous. This was a nightmare.

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