Liam slammed the laptop closed with a thud that echoed in the quiet library. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He’d been working on a new essay, and decided to check out a few examples. He’d found *his* application essay. He’d written it about his grandfather and the importance of fixing things. It was a sentimental, tear-jerker.

He considered burning the laptop. This was mortifying. He pulled up his other college essays as a distraction. He was going to fail this semester.

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