exasperated - Story 47550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a long, slow exhale that sounded like a tire deflating. John ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble on his cheeks. His son, Ethan, had a second, hidden life. A life he hadn't known about, a life built on...well, who knew? He felt a sense of bewilderment.

He pushed back from the desk, the chair screeching on the hardwood floor. He walked to the window and stared out at the street. The setting sun cast long shadows across the neighborhood. He felt tired, truly.

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