exasperated - Story 47159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was supposed to be happy for her. He really was. But the words wouldn't come. Jake sat across from Chloe, at the coffee shop, and tried to smile. She was going on and on about the exciting projects they'd be working on.

He nodded, forcing a response, but all he could see was his own, empty inbox. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment settling on his shoulders. He felt hot. He excused himself, citing a sudden, urgent need to go to the bathroom.

He splashed cold water on his face in the restroom, staring at his reflection, the image almost unrecognizable. He felt a deep, profound sense of inadequacy.

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