exasperated - Story 47122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you *kidding* me?" Clara practically shrieked at the customer service agent, her voice cracking. The wedding! Her best friend’s wedding. She’d meticulously chosen the perfect dress, the perfect gift, and now... this. She could feel a headache blooming behind her eyes. Her fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the hard plastic of the chair. The constant announcements, a meaningless stream of delayed flights and gate changes, only amplified her growing unease. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to simply *be* there.

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