exasperated - Story 47080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was packed. She had been looking forward to this for weeks. She was walking to her seat, lost in her thoughts, trying to ignore all the noise, when she recognized someone. Her friend from the virtual book club. It was Olivia. The one who always wrote long, rambling posts about every single novel.

"Hey!" Olivia called out, her voice a little too loud. "What a surprise!" Rachel felt a sudden, inexplicable heat rise from her neck to her cheeks. She just wanted to enjoy the performance in peace. Now, she had to make small talk.

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