exasperated - Story 47078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last thing she needed was this. Sophia was finally free from a grueling day at work, and the thought of unwinding with a book was tempting. But then, there he was, standing at the same table as her. It was Kevin, her online knitting friend. The guy who was always posting about his latest wool creations, the same guy who recognized her from her profile picture.

"Sophia! Fancy seeing you here!" Kevin said, his eyes gleaming. Sophia's hands clenched into fists, the soft book cover feeling like sandpaper. She wanted to scream.

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