exasperated - Story 47307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clicking of Amelia's keyboard suddenly grated on her nerves. She glared across the aisle at the young man, cheerfully typing away. He was the one, the one who was making more. She felt a heat crawl up her neck, a slow, burning tide. She closed her eyes, trying to visualize a calm, serene scene. It didn't work.

She abruptly stood up, pushing her chair back with a screech that made the young man jump. "Gonna get some coffee," she mumbled, her voice strained. She headed for the breakroom, her pace quick, almost frantic. The coffee maker hissed.

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