exasperated - Story 47328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Bland.” The single word echoed in his mind, stripping away all the previous successes, the accolades, the hard-won respect. The kitchen, once his sanctuary, now felt like a prison. He ripped off his toque, tossing it onto the counter. He ran his hands through his hair. He kicked the bin, sending it clattering across the floor. He sat down, breathing slowly, but the review's shadow remained.

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