exasperated - Story 47116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You've got the build," the swim coach said, the chlorinated air feeling oppressive. "We need you in the butterfly." Sarah had spent her life perfecting her freestyle, the graceful glide through the water. She stared at the pool, the sunlight glinting off the surface. A cold dread seeped into her bones. She crossed her arms, the movement almost violent. The butterfly was all about power, about endurance in a way she wasn't. Her fingers twitched. “But…” she began, her voice cracking.

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