exasperated - Story 47535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled along, each bump a jarring reminder of his current predicament. He clutched his worn backpack, its contents – textbooks, a half-eaten granola bar – feeling heavy, weighted with the news he'd received. He stared out the window, the passing scenery a blur of color and motion that did little to distract him from the turmoil churning inside him. He felt his jaw clench, his teeth grinding together. What was he supposed to do now?

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