exasperated - Story 47340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Red Door Cafe, closing next month." The words swam before Emily's eyes as she scrolled through the email. A sense of unease settled in her stomach, a feeling of deep-seated disturbance.

She stood up abruptly, knocking over her chair. The sound was surprisingly loud in the suddenly silent room. She couldn't believe it. This cafe was her retreat, her quiet space, the one thing she could always count on.

She wandered aimlessly through her apartment, her movements jerky and uncertain. Her mind felt like a chaotic jumble of thoughts. The Red Door Cafe... gone. The idea was unbearable.

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