He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles ached. The sound was even worse outside, the booming now echoing off the brick walls of the building. He turned off the engine, the sudden silence making the intrusion even more obvious.

He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to regain some semblance of composure. Then, sighing deeply, he got out of the car. He could almost feel the headache beginning to develop between his eyes. He approached the offending apartment, and knocked briskly.

No answer. He knocked again, harder this time.

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