exasperated - Story 47430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The upbeat music blaring from the radio seemed to amplify the internal pressure building within Kevin. He flicked the dial, searching for something, anything, to quiet the noise. The invitation lay on the dashboard of his car, taunting him with its bright, optimistic message.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the engine sputtering to a halt. He felt the familiar tightening in his chest, the slow, simmering heat of irritation.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to drive far, far away. He just wanted to be left alone.

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