exasperated - Story 47580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room, normally a sanctuary for Ben, felt like a cage. He was staring at his friend, Kevin. This was a disaster.

"The time we tried to break the world record for longest basketball game? Remember?" Ben asked, barely managing to keep the tremor out of his voice. Kevin shook his head, looking bewildered. "I hate basketball."

Ben felt a sudden urge to throw the weights across the room. He felt his hands trembling. He turned, and walked out.

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