exasperated - Story 47590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a wedding, awkwardly making small talk. Then the DJ announced a romantic number. He felt his heart sink as the opening chords of "Falling Stars" began to play. His song.

His jaw tightened. The singer's voice was weak, the melody completely wrong. Each off-key note was an assault. He could feel a flush of heat creeping up his neck.

He wanted to scream, to run, to hide. He turned away from the dance floor, seeking an escape, any kind of escape, from this agonizing display. He had to get some air.

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