exasperated - Story 47224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, cramped apartment felt even smaller now, suffocating him. He was stuck. His mother had declared it “Legacy Day” and had pulled everything from the storage unit. He had to be appreciative. He knew the look in her eyes; the look that he was always supposed to understand.

He grabbed a faded picture of himself, surrounded by friends, at a school play. He wanted to toss it across the room. He felt something hot in his chest, a frustration that was bubbling and boiling.

He needed to breathe.

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