exasperated - Story 47062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam reread the curt message on his phone, the words blurring before his eyes. His jaw clenched so hard he thought he might crack a tooth. He paced the cramped kitchen of his apartment, the worn linoleum creaking beneath his feet. The weight of the world pressed down on him, the future he'd meticulously planned now seemingly crumbling. He needed that money. He needed it to survive. He slammed his fist on the counter, the force making the silverware jump.

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