exasperated - Story 47016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the newspaper down on the kitchen table, the sudden noise causing the cat to leap from its comfortable perch on the windowsill. His son, Peter, had just declared his allegiance to a religious sect he had only heard mentioned in tabloid headlines. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples. Every muscle in his body felt tense. He gripped the edge of the table so tightly that his knuckles were white.

"This is not happening," he muttered under his breath, shaking his head.

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