exasperated - Story 47248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. The radiologist had called him in, saying they had detected something. Something he didn’t recognize. The results didn’t match his body. He’d been told he had stage two cancer, when the scans were clearly not his. It was like living in a hall of mirrors. He stood up, knocking the chair over. He wanted to scream, to run. But he stayed, frozen with shock.

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