exasperated - Story 47349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun felt like a personal affront to Olivia. Her to-do list loomed large in her mind, a source of constant anxiety. This whole yard sale experience was making her feel completely out of control.

Then she saw the bear. Its familiar face, now worn and faded. Her breath caught in her throat. She felt a wave of… *something* wash over her.

“How much?” she asked, her voice barely audible.

The young girl running the sale, her face smeared with ice cream, looked up, surprised. “Um, a dollar?”

A dollar. She reached for the money, her movements clumsy. She just wanted to… disappear.

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