exasperated - Story 47039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the cover, his breath catching in his chest. “The Unexpected Heiress: A Life of Glamour and Mystery.” He, Alexander, had never been involved with glamour or mystery. He was an accountant.

He gripped the book tightly, the glossy paper feeling slick under his sweaty palms. It was his cousin, Beatrice, who had unearthed this literary marvel, a woman he hadn’t seen in twenty years. She had sent it to him with an ecstatic note, full of praise.

He took a deep breath and opened the book. He skimmed a few pages. Lies. All lies. He wanted to scream, to smash something. He needed to get away. He stood and walked out of the house. He needed to be anywhere but there.

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