exasperated - Story 47072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya slammed the car door with more force than necessary. The rain was coming down in sheets, reflecting the streetlights. She’d been looking forward to a quiet night in, watching her show and eating nachos. Then, *he* had to show up. A tap on her window startled her. It was Ben, the online friend she'd been chatting with for months about obscure indie movies.

"Hey!" Ben chirped, holding a slightly soggy pizza box. "Fancy seeing you here! What a coincidence!" Maya pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Yeah. Real... *coincidence*." She forced a smile, the corners of her mouth twitching. All she wanted was to be alone. Now, she was going to have to make small talk. In the pouring rain. With a pizza.

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