exasperated - Story 47090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of yet another meeting made Mary's stomach churn. She envisioned the polite smiles, the forced compromises, the inevitable delay. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears.

She’d spent the morning cleaning, rearranging, trying to find some semblance of order in her life. Now, this. Another hurdle. She pushed her chair back from the table.

She picked up the phone. She had to talk to someone, anyone, before she completely lost it. The words, when they came, tumbled out in a rush.

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