exasperated - Story 47589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared from the kitchen, a constant companion while he made breakfast. Then, a familiar chord progression. It was *his* song, “Golden Fields,” but something was off.

He dropped the spatula, the eggs splattering across the stove. The singer’s voice was too high, too reedy, completely missing the song's depth.

He spun on his heel and paced the room. He felt a throbbing headache blooming behind his eyes. He wished he could turn it off, rip the radio from the wall, anything.

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