The internet search results were, as usual, unhelpful, filled with medical jargon and vague advice. John slammed his fist on the desk. He was growing weary of the lack of answers, the seemingly endless cycle of tests and appointments that led nowhere. The frustration mounted. He was running out of steam.

A chat box notification popped up on his screen. A message from someone else who’d found the same rare information. He clicked it.

The other person was equally frustrated, their words pouring out in a torrent of shared anger and confusion. Suddenly, he wasn’t alone anymore.

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