exasperated - Story 47417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the laundromat clung to Javier. He was already behind on his bills. His car needed repairs. His kids needed new shoes. He stared at the wallet, the cash seeming to glow under the fluorescent lights. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it even more dishevelled. He let out a low groan, leaning against the cold metal of a washing machine. The universe, he thought, must be laughing at him.

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