exasperated - Story 47479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, but he was not in a sunny mood. Another package, another name. He scowled at the label, the letters blurring slightly. He felt that familiar tightening in his chest.

He should just throw them all away. What was the point of even trying to return them? It was a waste of his time. He was so tired of this.

He walked into the kitchen, grabbed a glass, and poured himself some water. He needed to think.

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