exasperated - Story 47298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen of his laptop, the unfinished invitation email mocking him. He leaned back in his chair, feeling the tension build in his shoulders. The carefully crafted itinerary he’d created, the detailed list of guests, the secret location – all of it, worthless. He let out a frustrated grunt, a sound that conveyed the depth of his frustration. He was tempted to delete everything, just to make the reminder of it all 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