exasperated - Story 47345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of stale coffee and desperation. Sarah surveyed the scene, a feeling of utter frustration clawing at her. She was late for an appointment, and this whole thing was a bad idea.

Then, there he was. Half-hidden amongst a pile of tattered blankets, the bear’s familiar form sent a jolt of something unexpected through her. She felt her pulse quicken.

"How much for the bear?" Her voice was flat, devoid of emotion.

The woman, perched on a lawn chair with a crossword puzzle, glanced up. “Oh, that old thing? A quarter.”

A quarter. She placed the coins on the table, her fingers numb. This was ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. She wanted out.

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