exasperated - Story 47292 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the phone down, the plastic receiver rattling in its cradle. This was the third time in as many years. Three times he’d poured his heart, his time, his money, into a surprise, and three times it had been… derailed. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The neatly arranged streamers in the living room, the silly "Happy Birthday" banner he'd painstakingly strung, now felt like grotesque decorations. The quiet tick of the grandfather clock in the hall was infuriatingly rhythmic.

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