exasperated - Story 47199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, the sound slicing through the quiet afternoon. Mark braced himself, knowing what was coming. *Mr. Carter*. He squeezed his eyes shut. The man who had publicly shamed him. The man who had caused him so much embarrassment.

He opened the email, the screen illuminating his face. He felt his face heat up. It took him a while to get through the email. He wanted to scream.

He called his wife, his voice tight.

"I need to talk to you," he stated, and told her the situation. He began to pace back and forth. This would not be easy.

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