exasperated - Story 47060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the shop owner, who was busy buffing his nails. It was the third shop. The third time he'd asked. The third time he'd gotten nothing. He felt his jaw tighten, his muscles clenching. He was done. This was impossible. The feeling in his chest was becoming heavy and tight, restricting every breath. He wanted to go home and climb into bed and never wake up. He needed a break, he needed something, anything.

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