exasperated - Story 47146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a joke, right?” Ben demanded, his voice cracking. He held up the email, the words blurring before his eyes. Dr. Ramirez, his mentor, the man who had fueled his passion for marine biology, had departed. Poof. Gone. Ben threw the email across the room, where it landed in a crumpled heap. He kicked at a loose chair leg, sending it skidding across the floor. The sound of his own heavy breathing filled the silent lab. The sudden absence left a void that seemed to swallow him whole.

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