exasperated - Story 47056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a short, frustrated sigh. "You've got to be kidding me." The shop was crammed with dusty relics and forgotten treasures. He’d gone through the entire display case once already, and now he was doing it again. The owner watched him with a bored expression, leaning on the counter. The headache behind his eyes was starting to throb, and the taste of sourness coated his tongue. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture more of a pull. He felt cornered, the walls closing in.

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