The restaurant was too loud, the music too jaunty. Emily felt a prickling heat behind her eyes.

"The school play? You were the princess, remember?" she asked, trying to keep her tone casual. Across the table, Michael’s expression remained blank. "I don't think I was ever in a school play."

Emily felt a jolt of anger. She didn't want to show it, but she was finding it difficult to remain calm. She stood up abruptly, nearly knocking over her chair. She just turned and ran out.

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