exasperated - Story 47347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant chatter of the yard sale grated on Maria's nerves. She hated crowds. She hated small talk. She hated this entire experience. The pressure of her looming deadline was a lead weight in her stomach.

And then. It. His leg was hanging off. One eye was hanging out. She felt a sudden, inexplicable tightening in her chest.

“How much for the teddy bear?” The words came out in a strained whisper.

The woman, surrounded by a mountain of baby clothes, squinted at her. “Fifty cents.”

Fifty cents. She threw the coins on the table, barely meeting the woman's eyes. Why did she feel so exposed?

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