exasperated - Story 47487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt even smaller now, somehow. David paced the living room, the floorboards groaning in protest. He wanted to yell, to shout at the developers, the bank, the whole wretched system that had brought him to this point. His hands were clenched into fists. He had to keep moving, keep busy. Otherwise, he was certain he would simply… break. The ticking of the grandfather clock in the corner seemed to amplify the silence, mocking his helplessness.

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