exasperated - Story 47656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Seriously?!” Amelia exclaimed, throwing her phone onto the plush velvet cushion. The message, meant for her friend, read, "This date is a disaster." It had been sent to the date himself.

Amelia buried her face in her hands. Mortification, a hot and stinging sensation, spread across her cheeks. The man was nice, she supposed, if a bit bland. Now this?

She wanted to vanish. She wanted the earth to swallow her whole. This evening had been an utter waste of time, and she didn't know how she could face him now.

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