exasperated - Story 47660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She let out a frustrated groan, then kicked the chair leg across the floor. "This is a mess," she'd texted, meant for her co-worker. It had gone straight to her husband, who was already under pressure from work.

She took a deep, shaky breath, her hands clasped tightly. She felt herself flush. She knew what was coming next: a lecture, or worse, a silent treatment.

She walked to the window, watching the rain blur the world outside. She needed a way to get out of this situation, and fast.

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