He stared at the screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. The line of code he'd just written was identical to the code that had just been presented by his supposed colleague. He slammed his fist on the desk, the impact echoing through the small office. He'd rewritten, refactored, and streamlined this program for months.

He got up and started pacing. He didn’t want to look at his email again, but he did. He saw the file, he knew it was the same as his. He felt an overwhelming urge to hurl the computer across the room. He felt… trapped.

He took a deep breath. "Unbelievable," he muttered to himself.

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