exasperated - Story 47406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the overflowing trash bags, the overflowing boxes. The sheer volume of stuff was overwhelming, a physical manifestation of his own frustration. He yanked at a drawer jammed shut with dried-up paint tubes and forgotten brushes. It wouldn't budge.

He felt a knot tightening in his stomach. The light in the kitchen was dim, the atmosphere oppressive. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the grit of the dust clinging to his skin. Why did he have to be here? Why now?

His sister, Chloe, was humming as she examined a chipped teacup. "Isn't it lovely?" she asked, her eyes shining. He just stared at her.

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