The notification buzzed against Chloe’s phone, and she nearly dropped it. A knot tightened in her stomach. Mrs. Davis, her notoriously strict physics teacher, had just requested to follow her on Twitter. Chloe’s fingers clenched into fists. She knew her feed was filled with memes, random thoughts, and the occasional complaint about homework. How was she supposed to concentrate in class now, knowing Mrs. Davis might be silently judging her? She wished she could just disappear.

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