exasperated - Story 47364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun glinted off the glossy surface of the birthday card as David snatched it from the mailbox. It had been a terrible week. His car had broken down, the dog had gotten sick and, now this.

It read, "*To a special person, Happy Birthday!*" in a clumsy font. He didn't recognize the handwriting, which was a relief. At least it wasn't one of his relatives, he thought.

He crumpled the card into a tight ball, the paper crinkling harshly. He would be heading to the mechanics again. He threw it in the trash. The world was just determined to be difficult.

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