exasperated - Story 47541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, glowing screen felt like a hot coal in her hand. Sarah reread the comment: "OMG, Mom is such a *drag*." Her jaw clenched. She pinched the bridge of her nose, fighting back a headache that was already blooming behind her eyes. Dinner was almost ready, chicken breasts browning in the oven, mashed potatoes waiting to be whipped. She'd planned a nice, normal family meal. Now, this.

Her gaze flicked to the closed bedroom door, a defiant barricade against the world. She slammed the phone down on the kitchen counter, the sound sharp in the quiet house. Then she grabbed the oven mitts and angrily pulled the chicken from the oven, jabbing at it with a fork.

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