exasperated - Story 47599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. Michael stared at the screen, the cursor blinking, daring him to respond. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the sudden, overwhelming urge to break something. His hands shook as he closed the laptop.

He got up and started to walk, aimlessly, through the house, unable to find comfort. He grabbed a glass from the kitchen cabinet and filled it with water, but his hand was shaking, and he spilled half of it on the floor. He threw the glass down in the sink, the sound of the glass meeting the porcelain was harsh.

He needed to get out of the house. He grabbed his coat, heading out the door, and then he slammed it shut behind him. The door slammed shut, and he didn't care.

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