exasperated - Story 47469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just a necklace," his cousin, Bethany, had said, shrugging, about the pearl necklace that had belonged to his great-grandmother. He couldn't help but feel a sudden wave of anger. A burning sensation started behind his eyes.

He paced his kitchen. Every object seemed to mock him.

He slammed his fist on the counter. The delicate chimes of the grandfather clock in the hallway sounded off-kilter, out of tune, just like everything else. He was losing everything.

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