exasperated - Story 47170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the room pressed down on her. Clara felt a flicker of annoyance, followed quickly by a wave of something akin to despair. She saw him. He was making his way through the crowd, smiling. It was all a bit much.

She took a long, slow breath, trying to regain control of her racing thoughts. She gripped her champagne glass a little too tightly, the crystal digging into her palm. She hated that he still had this effect on her.

She had to get through this, she thought. She had to. But the thought of an extended conversation was genuinely dreadful.

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