exasperated - Story 47267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He swallowed hard, the lump in his throat refusing to budge. Michael sat on the bleachers, the vibrant green of the field suddenly looking dull and lifeless. The other players were celebrating, their laughter echoing around him. He felt like an outsider, a ghost. He wanted to join them, to share in the joy, but he couldn’t. The weight of his disappointment pressed down on him, making it hard to breathe. He stood up abruptly, knocking over a water bottle in his haste to leave.

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