exasperated - Story 47637 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty scent of the storage unit made her want to gag. Amelia stood, holding the letter aloft, trying to see the words in the dim light. It was addressed to her sister, the sister she hadn't spoken to in years. She didn’t even remember writing it.

She blinked rapidly, her vision blurring. The words, smudged and faded, reeked of a past she was trying desperately to bury. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. Why couldn't they all just disappear? She crumpled the letter into a ball and threw it on the floor. Then she turned and stomped out.

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