exasperated - Story 47653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his tiny apartment, the worn floorboards groaning under his weight. The text he'd sent read: "Pretty sure I'm going to scream." It had gone to his boss, Mr. Henderson, the man who’d just assigned him the project from hell.

He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it standing on end. He needed to get out of this apartment, out of this city, out of this entire existence.

He considered pretending he didn't send it, but that wouldn't work. His pulse hammered in his ears. He sank into his dilapidated armchair, defeated.

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