exasperated - Story 47410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tangled weeds in the backyard felt like a personal affront. He hacked at them with a rusty shovel, the metal biting into the hard-packed earth with frustrating slowness. Sweat dripped into his eyes, blurring his vision.

He slammed the shovel into the ground, a frustrated grunt escaping him. The setting sun cast long, ominous shadows. The whole place felt like a burden, a weight. He wanted to scream.

His sister, Ava, was happily planting flowers. She thought it was "therapeutic". He just wanted to leave.

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