exasperated - Story 47508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread was replaced by the metallic tang of dog food. He was just putting the loaf in the oven when the incessant barking began. He knew, before he even opened the door, what he would see.

There it was, the little Jack Russell, digging furiously at the base of his prize-winning pumpkin patch. He took a long, slow breath, struggling to control the twitch in his jaw.

He slammed the door, went back inside, and closed his eyes.

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