exasperated - Story 47327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic's assessment felt like a physical blow. "Uninspired." He felt as if his stomach had turned over. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples. He needed to get away, so he threw his keys into his pocket, and left the restaurant, the automatic door closing and locking behind him. The cool night air offered little relief. He walked aimlessly down the street, the lights of the city blurring into a watercolor smear.

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