He kicked a pebble across the sidewalk, watching it skitter into the gutter. The offending text: "This is a joke, right?" It had gone to his wife. It was intended for the contractor who was three weeks late on the kitchen remodel.

He let out a frustrated grunt. His jaw clenched. He pictured the chaos the project had caused. The constant noise, the dust, the lack of a functional kitchen. And now, this.

He shoved his hands into his pockets. He needed to find a way to make this situation disappear. It was as simple as that.

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