exasperated - Story 47412 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the antique shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside Martha. She held the wallet, its worn leather cool against her clammy hand. Her rent was overdue. The car needed new tires. Her grandson's school trip was coming up. This could fix everything. She ran a hand through her already disheveled hair, the gesture more frantic than calming. The weight of the money in her hands felt like a physical burden. "Oh, for crying out loud," she muttered, her voice barely a whisper.

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