exasperated - Story 47176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, the words swimming before his eyes. The fancy restaurant, the overpriced wine, the carefully-chosen outfit – all felt wrong, now. Jessica, sitting across from him, was still chattering about her ‘high-profile’ design work. He knew, now, that it was all a fabrication. His jaw ached from the effort of feigning interest. A construction worker? A *construction worker* had been his ‘high-powered’ designer friend?

He took a slow sip of wine, the liquid doing nothing to soothe the tension in his shoulders. The carefully constructed façade was starting to crumble, and he was left feeling utterly bewildered. He wanted to get up and walk away.

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