exasperated - Story 47106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could feel the muscle in his jaw starting to spasm. Michael, the newbie, was a sponge, but a sponge with no concept of absorption. "So, then I just… click this?" He watched, mesmerized, as Michael fumbled with the mouse. Daniel closed his eyes, then took a deep breath.

The office felt stuffy, the air thick with the scent of recycled air and impending frustration. He longed for the open road, the feeling of wind on his face, the freedom of the open road. This was torture.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He opened his mouth, then shut it, forcing a calm tone. "Yes, Michael. You click that." His voice sounded like it belonged to someone else.

The click of the mouse echoed in the silence. It was followed by another question. He thought he might explode.

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