exasperated - Story 47396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Blast,” Maya muttered, kicking the leg of the chair as she slammed the book shut. Another waste of time. She'd promised herself a relaxing evening, and this copy of *The Secret Garden* was a disaster.

A folded letter slid out, landing on the floor. She stared at it, her hands clenching into fists. She didn't want this. Sighing, she picked it up, then threw it in the trash without reading it.

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