The argument had been brutal. He'd accused her of being frivolous, of spending too much on the children. It was always *her* fault. She had found herself, again, crying in the bathroom. The water, running, washing away the sting of his words.

After she had cried herself out, she went into his office. She was not supposed to be in his office. She started to look for the budget, hoping to prove her point, hoping to find something, *anything* to calm the anger still rising inside of her. Under a stack of papers, she saw a sealed envelope. It was from the bank.

She felt a dizzying wave of betrayal wash over her. It was a physical blow.

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