exasperated - Story 47238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How? How is this even possible?” Mark rasped, his voice hoarse. He was staring at the screen, unable to tear his gaze away from the brightly lit pages of his teenage diary. He felt a hollowness in his chest, a void opening up where his stomach used to be. He began to walk back and forth. The floorboards of his apartment squeaked under his boots. He felt trapped, cornered, exposed. He wanted to crawl out of his own skin.

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