The weight of the list felt heavy in her hand, the words blurring slightly. Sophia glanced around the cluttered apartment, a feeling of unease settling in her stomach. Her mother, a creature of habit and routine, had a bucket list that was full of the unexpected. "Learn to dance the salsa." "Visit a ghost town." Sophia felt a strange heat rise in her cheeks.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to contain the rising tide of… something. This was going to be a test of endurance, she knew. A long, exhausting test.

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