exasperated - Story 47305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights in the breakroom seemed to buzz louder than usual. Brenda leaned against the counter, her arms crossed tightly. She’d always considered herself a patient person, but this… this was different. The fact that the new associate in her team – fresh out of grad school – earned more… She couldn't even bring herself to look at him.

She clenched her jaw, the muscles in her neck tight. She took a long, slow breath, trying to calm the rapid beat of her heart. She imagined ripping up the contract and tossing it in the face of the CEO. She closed her eyes, and took another breath, then grabbed her keys and walked out.

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