The air conditioning hummed, a futile attempt to combat the rising temperature in the small apartment. I could practically feel the blood rushing through my veins. Every detail, from my nervous habit of biting my nails to my embarrassing love of reality TV, was in there.

I tossed the manuscript aside, the pages scattering across the floor. I felt like I was going to explode.

"Alex!" I shouted. My voice was shaky, strained. "Get in here this instant!" I didn't care if I woke the neighbors.

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