The tiny, cramped space seemed to shrink further with each passing second. Amelia kept fidgeting, adjusting the strap of her bag, then her scarf. She had been on her way to an important interview. Now, her chances were rapidly fading.

Across from her, John from IT, was rambling on about the intricacies of elevator mechanics. She barely heard a word.

"Do you *mind*?" she cut in, her voice strained. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She needed to get out.

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