exasperated - Story 47370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the card, a generic image of a cat wearing a party hat. It was so unnecessary. Michael felt his chest tighten, his breath coming in short, shallow gasps. Today was already going to be challenging.

The message was bland and impersonal: "*Wishing you a day filled with laughter!*" Laughter? The dog needed to be walked, he had a dentist appointment and a car repair to deal with. He was starting to feel the pressure.

He threw the card into the bin, the motion quick and decisive. The world felt like it was conspiring against him.

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