The two architects stood at the construction site, looking at the identical blueprints being held up by the foreman. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to break something. He had spent months designing this building. He had envisioned every detail.

"I… I don't understand," he stammered, his voice hoarse. Across from him, his "partner," who he’d trusted with this project, just shrugged with a smirk on his face. He felt betrayed, not to mention a growing sense of panic.

He felt a tremor in his hands. He ran a hand over his face.

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