exasperated - Story 47654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers trembled as she deleted the text, the words still burning in her mind: “I can’t believe you.” She’d meant to text her ex, Mark. It had gone to her best friend, Chloe. Chloe, who had patiently listened to her vent about Mark for the past six months.

She dropped her phone onto the kitchen table, the sudden quiet amplifying the racing of her thoughts. How could she explain this? How could she apologize without sounding even more foolish?

She leaned against the counter, suddenly feeling exhausted. This whole situation was ridiculous, and she was so beyond tired of it.

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