exasperated - Story 47239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands trembled as she scrolled through the comments section. The words, the judgements, the laughter – it was all too much. She felt a pressure building behind her eyes, the familiar sting of tears. She quickly closed the laptop, letting out a frustrated sigh. She wanted to scream. She wanted to disappear. She wanted to go back in time and prevent this from happening. She buried her face in her hands, desperately trying to control the waves of emotion that crashed over her.

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