The presentation slides were corrupted, the data was missing, and the client was due in twenty minutes. Beth felt a cold dread wash over her. It was all a disaster.

"This is like when we got lost during the camp hike at Camp Clearwater," said Michael, her coworker.

Beth's mouth opened in a silent scream.

"We were scared, but we worked together!"

Beth felt her shoulders rise. No, she did not need to be reminded of the hike, or the camp. She felt a need to scream, she thought.

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