exasperated - Story 47460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice barely audible. Her hand flew to her mouth, her fingers trembling. The sheer absurdity of the situation struck her like a physical blow. Everything felt unreal.

She slammed the laptop shut with a vicious snap, the sudden noise shocking the silence. She needed to move, to do *something*, anything, to break free from the paralysis that had seized her.

She grabbed her keys and bolted out the door, the cool night air hitting her face like a slap. She started walking, fast, putting distance between herself and the source of her newly found misery. Tears streamed down her face. She didn’t know where she was going, she just knew she couldn’t stop.

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