exasperated - Story 47290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the screen. "Samantha Baker sent you a friend request." His knuckles whitened as he gripped the edge of the desk. The memories flooded back: the relentless teasing, the social ostracism, the feeling of being constantly, cruelly judged. He slammed his fist on the desk, the impact reverberating through his arm. He closed his eyes, fighting back a wave of fatigue.

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