exasperated - Story 47533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Leo asked, his voice sharp enough to cut glass. He glared at the administrator across the mahogany desk, the polished wood reflecting his own distorted image. The woman, all pearl necklaces and perfectly coiffed hair, had the audacity to offer him a mumbled apology and a vague promise of "looking into it." Looking into it? He was looking at expulsion! He ran a hand over his face. He felt like he was going to explode. The vein in his forehead throbbed.

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