exasperated - Story 47244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He shoved the papers across the table, the legal documents rustling like angry whispers. John could feel his pulse hammering in his ears, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the lawyer's office. This whole thing was ludicrous. His medical history, including the supposed amputation of his left leg, was the cause of him being denied life insurance. He rubbed his hands across his face, a gesture of sheer frustration. He was a marathon runner; the leg was very much attached.

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