exasperated - Story 47103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clock on the microwave in the breakroom seemed to taunt her. Each passing second ticked by at a snail's pace. “And then what do I do with the, uh… the thingamajigger?” It was the fifth time today he’d asked about the thingamajigger. Amelia rubbed her temples, feeling the beginnings of a tension headache. This process was a trial.

Her replacement, Kevin, was a well-meaning but utterly clueless individual. Every instruction was met with a blank stare, every task required multiple explanations. She felt a knot tightening in her chest. She had a mountain of her own work to do, and instead, she was trapped in this purgatory.

She gestured towards the filing cabinet with a stiff hand. "Put the thingamajigger... in the filing cabinet." Her voice was flat. She needed a vacation. A very long one.

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