exasperated - Story 47367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card sat in her hand, a garish display of rainbows and oversized lettering. Sarah sighed, the sound like a deflating balloon. Another thing.

The message was predictably vague: *“Hope your day is amazing!”* Amazing? The washing machine was leaking, she was late for her yoga class, and her phone had died.

She ripped the card in half, then again, and again, until it was a pile of colorful confetti. She tossed it in the bin. The world wanted to be difficult today, apparently.

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