exasperated - Story 47368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the card. It was a childish drawing of a cake, the frosting smeared. John felt a muscle twitch in his jaw. The dog had thrown up on the carpet this morning. He could not keep up with the mess.

The message read, in uneven, wobbly letters: "*You deserve the best birthday ever!*" He threw the card onto the counter. The air felt heavy.

He needed to clean the carpet, take the dog to the vet and make a grocery run. He felt the tension building in his shoulders. This day would be a long one.

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