exasperated - Story 47196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael’s knuckles cracked as he balled his fists. He knew it was coming. It was the only thing that could have happened. He flipped the school directory, his vision blurring. *Mrs. Albright*. The woman who had consistently said he would never amount to anything. The woman who had made his life a misery.

He paced his living room, his steps rapid and uneven. The air felt thick, suffocating. He could not believe that the world was doing this to him.

His daughter, Chloe, bounced into the room, her eyes sparkling with excitement. "Daddy! Guess what? I have Mrs. Albright this year!" she announced.

Michael forced a shaky smile, his voice thin. “That’s…wonderful, honey.” He wished he could teleport himself away from the situation. But, he had no choice. He could only see how things go, and see if there was a way he could help.

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