exasperated - Story 47577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park, bathed in the golden light of the late afternoon, seemed to mock Clara. She had pictured this meeting, under the old oak tree, with Sarah. She'd prepared all week. Her heart felt as if it was going to burst.

"The time we dug the time capsule?" she asked, her voice hushed. Sarah blinked at her, with a confused look. "I'm afraid not."

Clara's hands clenched into fists. A knot of frustration tightened in her stomach. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. Why wouldn't she remember?

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