exasperated - Story 47336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be real," Maya whispered, clutching the crumpled flyer in her hand. "The Cozy Corner Cafe...gone?" Her throat felt tight, constricted.

She sank into the nearest chair, her legs suddenly weak. Every Saturday morning she would go to the cafe. The waitress, Sarah, already knew her order. What would she do now?

She slowly ran a trembling hand across her face. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She knew, with a certainty that settled in her stomach like a stone, that her weekend routine, and a piece of her, was gone.

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