exasperated - Story 47474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, cramped hallway seemed to shrink with the addition of the unwanted package. She stared at it, the corners of her mouth twitching. It was a small thing, a flat box, but it felt colossal.

She wanted to fling it across the room. She clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. The sheer inconvenience of it all. It was maddening.

She marched into the kitchen, grabbing the phone. She'd call the building manager again. This had to 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