exasperated - Story 47063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Chloe muttered, staring at the rejection letter. Her voice was sharp, a distinct edge creeping into it. She crumpled the paper in her hand, the crisp edges becoming a ball of frustration. She tossed it in the trash, then immediately retrieved it, smoothing the creases. She wanted to rip it to shreds, to set it on fire, but instead, she just sat there, staring at the offending document, as if sheer will could change its contents.

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