exasperated - Story 47587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus chugged along, rattling through the city. Then, the opening strains. "Midnight Bloom." The melody was his, but the singer was a young girl who clearly had no business singing.

His stomach clenched. He squeezed his eyes shut. Each off-key note was a physical blow.

He wanted to leap up, yank the headphones from her ears, and explain how the song was meant to be sung. Instead, he forced himself to breathe slowly, counting the stops until he could escape this sonic assault.

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