exasperated - Story 47620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the half-written speech, a jumbled mess of half-formed sentences and crossed-out words. John ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess. His father’s retirement party. An event he dreaded.

He imagined the room, the forced laughter, the tedious conversation. He felt his jaw tighten. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run.

He threw the pen down on the desk. He felt a sharp, persistent ache in his temples. He just wanted it to be over. He needed to get through this.

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