He stared at the letter, a muscle jumping in his cheek. Thomas had been reorganizing the garage, a task he'd been putting off for months. And now, this. The letter was to his wife, written during a particularly nasty spat, filled with accusations and recriminations.

He tossed it onto the workbench, the metal clanging sharply. He felt a familiar knot forming in his stomach. Why did he always have to be the one to do this? Why did he have to be the one to remember? He wanted to smash something, anything. He began kicking at a discarded bucket.

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