exasperated - Story 47136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is a joke," Leo stated flatly, his voice devoid of emotion. He was seated in the sterile classroom, with the professor, the very picture of academic authority, across from him. He couldn’t quite meet the man's gaze.

He picked at a loose thread on his jeans, shredding it into smaller and smaller pieces. The accusation felt absurd, preposterous. He knew he had done nothing wrong. The professor was laying out their case. He did not care. He was only focused on keeping himself from losing his mind.

He knew he would have to spend the next few weeks fighting to clear his name. The thought of the mountain of work ahead of him made his stomach churn. He stood up from his chair.

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