exasperated - Story 47576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is… ridiculous," Mark muttered under his breath, staring at his old friend, Sam. He wanted to say more, but he couldn’t find the words. The words just felt stuck.

Sam simply stared back at him with a polite, if confused, expression. "Sorry, I can't say I do. Are you sure I'm the person you're looking for?"

Mark felt the blood drain from his face. He felt like he'd been punched. He crossed his arms, the action a self-protective gesture. He took a step back, and suddenly, he just wanted to leave. He took a deep breath, and he just walked away.

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