He threw the shovel into the shed with a resounding clang. He really didn't need this right now. He was late. Late for his own dentist appointment, a fact that was rapidly becoming the least of his worries. The woman had the nerve to ask him to dig up *his* grass for her stupid little herbs.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He could feel the pulse in his neck, a frantic drumbeat. He thought about just ignoring the whole thing, but that felt... wrong.

He trudged back towards the house, grumbling under his breath. He had planned to spend this weekend working on the car. Instead, he would spend it dealing with her.

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