exasperated - Story 47086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blueprints spread across his kitchen table, the tiny lines and measurements blurring before his eyes. The fence… it was all anyone talked about. It felt like his own personal prison was being erected, piece by piece, right next door.

His wife had already offered him a headache tablet, but he waved her off. He clenched his fists, feeling the nails biting into his palms. He wasn’t sure how much more of this he could take.

He pushed the blueprints away, the paper rustling in the sudden quiet. He felt his pulse quicken. He needed a walk, a drink, *something*.

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