The phone slipped from Chloe's grasp, clattering to the hardwood floor. It took her a moment to look down at it. She ignored it, and stared at the framed photo on her desk. That was her dad. He'd done everything he could to help her get into this place. Now what? She slowly sat down, her legs feeling like lead.

She looked at the ceiling and saw her future. Or lack of. Nothing was making any sense. She closed her eyes. The world seemed to be spinning. Everything felt so incredibly unfair.

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