exasperated - Story 47017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, almost gaudy, colors of the artwork in the small studio apartment felt overwhelming. Her daughter, Emily, had always been drawn to the unconventional, but this…this was a step too far. She ran a hand over her own, understatedly elegant, dress and sighed internally. The incense burning in a clay bowl filled her nostrils, making her feel slightly nauseous. This entire situation was making her feel completely off balance.

“So, no more Sunday brunches?” she asked, her voice thin, as if she was afraid to speak too loudly and upset something.

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