exasperated - Story 47143 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup shattered on the tiled floor, the dark liquid splattering across the pristine white surface. "Seriously?" Clara choked out, staring at the shattered ceramic. Her boss, Mr. Henderson, the man who had guided her through five years of cutthroat corporate politics, was *retired*. A handwritten note on a Post-it, that’s all. It was as if she never even existed. She felt a heat rising in her chest. She grabbed a towel and scrubbed the floor with unnecessary vigor.

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