exasperated - Story 47476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one!” she exclaimed to her cat, who blinked back at her with its usual indifference. She picked up the box, feeling the heat rise in her face. The cat meowed, probably wanting food. Not now.

The name on the address label wasn't even familiar anymore. She’d seen so many. She felt the urge to rip it open, to tear the contents apart, just to feel some control.

She dropped the package onto the floor with a thud. She needed to focus, to calm down. Perhaps yoga.

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