exasperated - Story 47322 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words. The critic had compared his meticulously crafted bouillabaisse to "dishwater." Anna, the waitress, poked her head in. "Everything alright, Chef?" He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck tightening. He took a deep, steadying breath. "Just…busy," he managed, his voice strained. He grabbed a cleaver and viciously chopped a pile of tomatoes, the sounds echoing in the now empty restaurant. The scent of the tomatoes, usually a comfort, offered no solace.

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