exasperated - Story 47472 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She threw the box onto the kitchen counter, the cardboard scraping against the linoleum. This was the third one this week. A sigh escaped her, a long, drawn-out sound that seemed to carry the weight of a thousand ignored reminders.

She glared at the package, imagining the former resident, probably lounging on a beach somewhere, completely oblivious to the chaos they left behind. Her jaw tightened, the muscles aching with the force of her unspoken frustration.

She grabbed her keys and headed back out, deciding a walk was needed to blow off steam.

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