exasperated - Story 47011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burning toast filled the kitchen, a smell that usually made Martha's stomach rumble with anticipation for her morning bagel. Today, it just felt…wrong. Her son, David, stood opposite her, beaming, clutching a pamphlet with a gold-embossed cover. He'd been gone for a week, supposedly on a photography trip. “Mom, I have something amazing to tell you,” he’d declared, eyes sparkling. Now, the bagel crumbs were catching fire. She grabbed the smoking bread, her hand trembling slightly. This couldn’t be happening. Not this. Not now.

"So, what's all the excitement about, sweetie?" Martha asked, her voice tight, a vein in her forehead throbbing gently.

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:

`S`	0.435
`l`	0.378
`P`	0.331
`que`	0.320
`la`	0.269

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.433
`gradually`	-0.254
`soon`	-0.248
`unfolding`	-0.216
`joyful`	-0.216