exasperated - Story 47295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt too big, too empty. Empty, even though it was filled with the evidence of his meticulous planning. The birthday banners, the brightly colored napkins, the ridiculous hats shaped like mini cakes. He stared at the half-filled punch bowl, the ice already starting to melt. A wave of dizziness washed over him. He sank into the nearest chair, feeling the sudden, overwhelming urge to just… sleep. To simply close his eyes and make the whole thing disappear.

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