The air was heavy with the smell of freshly cut wood and impending doom. “Well, this is just great,” I muttered, kicking a stray twig out of the way. The fallen birch tree had completely blocked my driveway.

I wanted to scream. I'd been planning on a day of writing, of finally getting some work done. Instead, I'd probably be stuck dealing with insurance, and tree removal companies, and… ugh.

I looked at the massive trunk, felt a growing sense of frustration. Just great. I massaged my temples, feeling my blood pressure rise. Okay. Deep breaths. First thing, I needed to locate my phone. This was going to take a while.

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