exasperated - Story 47240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed his keys and slammed the door behind him, the sound echoing through the empty hallway. He needed to get away, to escape the suffocating feeling that had taken hold. His teenage diary, his most prized possession, had been published online. He felt a deep, raw ache, a wound that throbbed with every step he took. The world seemed to spin around him, mocking his vulnerability. He needed air, space, anything to distract him from the crushing weight of exposure.

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