exasperated - Story 47281 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "Brenda Miller sent you a friend request." Sarah slammed her laptop shut, the click echoing in the otherwise silent apartment. Her shoulders slumped. It had been twenty years. Twenty years since Brenda had made her life a living hell with whispered insults and deliberately clumsy "accidents" in the school hallway. Now, this. She rubbed her temples, a dull throb beginning to build behind her eyes. *No*, she thought. *Absolutely not.*

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