He slammed the door of his apartment, the force of it rattling the pictures on the wall. He needed to find a place. This condo thing was the worst news he'd heard.

He marched to the window, staring out at the street below. He felt a deep, uncomfortable pressure in his chest. Finding a new apartment felt like climbing Everest.

He turned from the window and collapsed onto the sofa. The worn cushions offered no comfort. He just wanted things to go back to how they were. It was as if everything had been turned upside down.

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