exasperated - Story 47586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And now, a cover of one of your favorite songs!” The DJ's voice boomed from the stadium speakers. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him as the first notes of "Lost and Found" reached him.

He’d poured years into that song, it was his magnum opus. He watched the band start to play and the lead singer was butchering everything. It made him want to scream.

He dug his nails into his palms. He wanted out. This was a nightmare, this was a joke. He felt his hands begin to tremble.

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