exasperated - Story 47618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tie felt like a noose. David adjusted it for the tenth time, the knot a symbol of his growing discontent. His father's retirement party. He felt a knot in his stomach.

He needed to deliver a speech. He thought about the other people who would be there. His cousins, their smug smiles, their perfect lives. His skin felt hot. He pinched the bridge of his nose.

He opened his laptop, stared at the blank screen, then slammed it shut. He'd find a way to get out of this. He had to. He felt a deep, inner irritation.

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