exasperated - Story 47193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Peterson?" Maria echoed, her voice sharp. She reread the list of teachers, her fingers drumming a frantic rhythm against the countertop. The name jumped off the page, mocking her. *Mr. Peterson*, the man who had always favored the teacher's pet, who had failed her on the history exam because she did not like to study.

She walked towards the living room, her steps quick and short. Her son, Leo, was engrossed in a game.

“Leo, honey, who’s your teacher?” she asked, her voice strained.

Leo looked up, his eyes bright. “Mr. Peterson! He's really cool!”

Maria closed her eyes for a moment, the world tilting. Her patience was wearing thin. She needed a drink. Immediately.

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