exasperated - Story 47478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the package, a vein throbbing in his temple. The audacity! It was a large, imposing box, taking up half the entryway. He wanted to scream.

He picked it up, hefting it. He could probably just leave it outside, right? Someone would eventually take it.

He thought of the other boxes, the mountains of mail, the endless stream of someone else's belongings. He had to do something.

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