A cold feeling settled in Amelia’s chest. Ms. Johnson, the choir teacher she sometimes clashed with over musical choices, had followed her on Spotify. She grabbed her phone, the screen reflecting her wide eyes. Her listening habits were a jumble of genres – pop, classical, rock… and some things she’d prefer Ms. Johnson to *never* know about. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. This was going to be awkward.

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