exasperated - Story 47350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless chatter of the other buyers thrummed in Ethan's ears. He felt a familiar knot of frustration tighten in his stomach. He didn't want to be here. He had important things to do, obligations to meet.

And then. Tucked away amongst a pile of broken toys, he saw it. The familiar shape, the tattered fur. He felt a sudden, unwelcome tremor.

"How much?" he asked, the words escaping his lips before he could stop them.

The elderly woman, her face etched with wrinkles, looked up. “Twenty-five cents.”

Twenty-five cents. He paid, feeling a strange mix of annoyance and… something else he couldn’t name. He wanted to flee.

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