exasperated - Story 47657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The muscles in her jaw were locked tight. The text, "Is it always this chaotic?" had gone to her father. The real recipient was her older brother, who, with his wife and four children, was a constant source of mayhem.

She took a deep breath, trying to loosen the tension in her shoulders. The thought of this family gathering filled her with a sense of dread.

She felt like banging her head against the wall. She closed her eyes, wishing she could rewind time and prevent this from ever happening.

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