exasperated - Story 47145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone hit the desk with a loud thud, making the papers on top of it jump. “Of all the…” Sarah hissed, her voice barely a whisper. Her supervisor, Mrs. Chen, the woman who had painstakingly cultivated Sarah’s talent for years, was *retired*. The news, a curt email, had arrived that morning. Sarah picked up the phone again, then slammed it down. The screen was still displaying the email. She felt a sudden urge to break something. She gripped the edge of the desk, her knuckles turning white.

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