exasperated - Story 47047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of tools and the shouts of the construction crew echoed through the otherwise tranquil morning. John felt his shoulders stiffen, his jaw clench. This was the fifth straight weekend of noise, the fifth straight weekend his dreams were shattered.

He threw his hands up in the air in frustration. He had to be at his best for the presentation on Monday, but how could he focus with this going on? He considered calling the contractor, but he was convinced it would fall on deaf ears.

He paced the living room, the space feeling too small, the walls closing in. He felt the familiar pressure building behind his eyes. He longed for just one day of quiet, a single moment of peace. He sank into the armchair and closed his eyes.

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