exasperated - Story 47415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering light from the security camera cast long, dancing shadows across David’s face. He paced the sterile lobby of the lost and found, the leather wallet clutched tight in his hand. He chewed on his lip, his gaze darting between the closed-circuit TV and the floor. He'd been saving for a house. This money could provide the down payment. His breath hitched in his chest. “Come on, come on,” he muttered under his breath, as if willing the owner to appear.

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