exasperated - Story 47490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of it, the sheer, undeniable weight of this impending loss, pressed down on her chest. Amelia stared at the house, a thousand fragmented pieces of her life flashing before her eyes. She wanted to scream, to weep, to run back inside and lock herself in the attic. She pressed her fingertips against her lips, as if to physically contain the turmoil. The relentless drone of the bulldozer's engine seemed to vibrate through her very bones. This was unacceptable. This was wrong. This was… simply too much.

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