exasperated - Story 47559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chirping of the crickets felt loud enough to shatter glass. The tiny enclosure, perched on the kitchen counter, seemed to thrum with a manic energy. "They're therapeutic," Mark had said, when he presented them. He was, apparently, a fan of insects now.

He didn't find the chirping therapeutic. He found it grating, oppressive. He couldn't think. He couldn't focus. He found himself clenching and unclenching his fists. He needed to get out of the apartment. Anywhere.

He grabbed his keys and slammed the door, the sound lost in the cacophony of chirps.

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