exasperated - Story 47058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door chimed, and David slumped his shoulders. He felt like he had been swallowed by a sea of clutter. The shop was crammed, every surface covered with items he could barely make out. He rubbed his tired eyes, then approached the counter. "I'm looking for an engagement ring," he began, his voice flat and monotone. He didn’t care what it cost anymore; he just wanted this nightmare to be over. His shoulders were slouched; his posture was defeated.

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