exasperated - Story 47108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant tapping of the pen was starting to make him twitch. He could feel a pressure building behind his eyes. He just wanted to be alone with a nice book. He glanced at the clock – still two hours left. Two hours of explaining the simplest of tasks.

"So, where do I find the… the thing?" The thing. This was a whole new level of despair. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. This was going to be a long day.

He opened them again, and managed a weak smile. "It's in the… the filing cabinet." His voice was flat.

He needed a cigarette.

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