exasperated - Story 47335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Leo practically barked the question at his phone. The notification had popped up, a cruel reminder. "The Spicy Wok to Close Due to Rising Costs." He felt his face heat up.

He shoved the phone into his pocket, his knuckles white. The Spicy Wok. He’d eaten there every Thursday for the last five years. He pictured the fiery mapo tofu.

He grabbed his keys and stormed out of the apartment, the slamming door echoing his inner turmoil. The sun seemed blindingly bright, the air too thin. He needed to get away, to walk, to…anything.

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