exasperated - Story 47330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic’s words were a weight on his shoulders. “Overly ambitious…and ultimately disappointing.” He felt a heat prickling at the back of his neck. He walked into the walk-in refrigerator, the sudden cold a shock. He slammed the door, the sound echoing in the confined space. He leaned against the cool metal wall, closing his eyes, trying to think of something other than the review, but he knew that wouldn't happen.

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