The beach air, usually so refreshing, felt heavy and suffocating. John, staring at Maria, felt the frustration bubble up inside him. He had thought about this moment, for years.

"The seashell collection? We spent the whole summer, collecting the different types?" he asked, his voice tight. Maria frowned. "I collected stamps, not seashells."

John felt a surge of heat. His palms were sweating. He wanted to kick something. He suddenly turned and walked away.

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