"What am I supposed to do?" she muttered, staring at the competing event listing on the Facebook page. Her pottery class was going to clash with a rave. The utter lack of consideration stung. Her hands were starting to shake.

She’d spent months collecting invitations, and had carefully prepared all the details. Now, her meticulously organized "creative afternoon" was facing a head-to-head battle with strobe lights and loud music.

She bit her lip, a wave of heat washing over her. She knew a lot of the same people would be attending both parties. She grabbed her phone and tried to decide if it was worth sending a desperate text to her friends.

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