exasperated - Story 47265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was deafening. I gripped the steering wheel so hard my knuckles were white. The tryout results. They were the elephant in the vehicle, an unacknowledged mass of failure. My dad, bless his heart, tried a jovial, "Well, there's always next year!" I managed a strained smile in response. The highway stretched before me, a ribbon of asphalt leading... nowhere. The radio, normally a comfort, now blared a song I couldn't stand. I turned it off with a savage click.

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