exasperated - Story 47585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator music, a constant source of annoyance at the best of times, somehow became even more infuriating. The melody. His melody. "Whispering Pines," mangled beyond recognition.

He fought the urge to smash the control panel. He felt the tension building in his shoulders. The singer was *murdering* it.

He imagined grabbing the microphone. Fixing this. But it was only a few floors, and he had a business meeting. He just had to endure, to grit his teeth, to not make a scene.

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