exasperated - Story 47662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah tapped her foot, a rapid, staccato rhythm against the metal floor. The air was thick, stale with the smell of recycled air and cheap perfume. Across from her, Mark, from sales, hummed a tuneless song, oblivious.

"Could you... not?" she snapped, the words sharper than she meant them to be. She crossed her arms, a visible barrier.

He just shrugged, the picture of casual indifference. She let out a frustrated breath. She had a mountain of work waiting for her. Her evening plans were ruined. The thought of it made her stomach clench.

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