exasperated - Story 47311 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ramen noodles were getting cold. Liam stared, rigid, as Maya, across the small kitchen table, butchered another attempt at "gorgi." The Korean word for "thank you." He pinched the bridge of his nose. He’d taught her the word weeks ago, casually, and now it was a weapon. Every burnt dinner, every dropped utensil, it was "gorgi" followed by a sheepish grin. He sighed, the warmth of the broth receding. He just wanted a peaceful meal.

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