exasperated - Story 47428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the silence of the afternoon. It was her best friend, confirming her attendance at the reunion. Emily sighed, the sound heavy with resignation. She ran a hand across her forehead, the gesture betraying her internal turmoil.

She had spent the last hour staring at the invitation, the glossy paper practically vibrating with forced cheer. The idea of revisiting those hallways, those classrooms, those… people, filled her with dread.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was going to be a long, long month.

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