exasperated - Story 47413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Mark slammed the wallet down on the countertop of his tiny apartment. The ceiling fan, ancient and creaking, did little to cool the stuffy air. He'd been late to work all week, and his boss had been breathing down his neck. Now this. He hadn't seen this kind of money since… well, ever. His head throbbed. He pinched the bridge of his nose, a sigh escaping his lips. He ran a hand over his face. This was a nightmare.

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