exasperated - Story 47155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and there was Ben, beaming from ear to ear. He was holding a box of donuts. Sarah’s stomach churned. He was so happy. She hated him right now.

She forced a smile and offered a weak congratulatory speech. He didn’t seem to notice her strained tone. He was too busy boasting about the office. She wanted to smash the donuts.

Her hands were clenched into fists, her fingernails digging into her palms. She needed to get away from him, away from this constant, grating cheerfulness. "Gotta run," she mumbled, and slipped past him, ignoring his questions.

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