exasperated - Story 47270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," muttered Maria under her breath. She threw the crumpled team roster into the trash, the action quick and decisive. The gymnasium buzzed with the chatter of other athletes. She turned away from the scene. The world seemed to have tilted on its axis, leaving her feeling unbalanced and adrift. Her legs felt weak. She just wanted to escape the noise, the faces, the reminder of her defeat.

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