exasperated - Story 47071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop’s door chimed, a cheery sound that grated on Leo’s nerves. He hunched further over his laptop, pretending intense focus on the spreadsheet, though the numbers swam before his eyes. It was *him*. The guy from the forum. The one who spent *way* too much time talking about obscure 80s synth-pop. Suddenly, there he was, standing right in front of him. A wave of heat flushed Leo’s face. He just wanted to finish his stupid report and go home.

"Hey!" The guy was beaming, holding a stack of books. "Leo, right? From the... uh... the *thing*?" He gestured vaguely at the laptop. Leo's jaw tightened.

"Yeah. Hi." He tried for polite, but it came out more like a strangled bark. He wanted to vanish. Maybe under the table? Or through the floor?

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