The office was a disaster. The air conditioning was broken, and the temperature was soaring. Everyone was irritable. David wanted to quit. He needed to get out.

"It's just like Camp Clearwater," said Sarah, his coworker.

David stared at her. His gaze was burning and his fists clenched.

"We were stuck in those cabins all day and night! It was horrible, but we survived."

He ground his teeth. Camp Clearwater. The very words seemed to amplify his mounting frustration.

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