exasperated - Story 47505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clanging of the gate. That's all it was, the simple clanging. But it was enough. He knew, he just knew, it would be that dog.

He walked over to the back door and saw it; the small, fluffy terror, standing proudly in the middle of his freshly mowed lawn, a half-eaten hotdog in its mouth. He couldn’t even bring himself to say anything. He just stared at the hotdog, then at the dog.

He turned and slowly began to make his way back inside, he needed some air.

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