exasperated - Story 47408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate lawyer’s carefully chosen words were a blur of legal jargon. He zoned out, feeling the pressure building in his temples. He hated these sorts of meetings. He ran a hand through his hair, wishing he could fast forward to the end of it all.

He pushed away from the cold table, his stomach twisting. The air in the house was thick, heavy with the weight of unspoken things. He needed to get out. Now.

His sister, Sophia, was engrossed in a discussion with the lawyer about property taxes. He just wanted to go to the pub.

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