exasperated - Story 47231 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup nearly slipped from Maya's trembling fingers. Her cheeks felt hot, a flush creeping up her neck. Every single student at her university was now reading her innermost thoughts, complete with poorly-spelled crushes and angst-ridden poems about the rain. She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in her tiny apartment. The air felt thick, heavy, as though the walls were closing in. "This can't be real," she muttered, pacing the cramped space.

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