exasperated - Story 47665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock on the elevator wall blinked 3:17. Michael felt a tremor of annoyance run through him. He was supposed to be at the airport, on a flight to see his family. Now, he was trapped with Susan, his overly-enthusiastic supervisor.

"Well," Susan said brightly. "At least we have company." Her voice grated on him.

He avoided her gaze, staring out at the solid metal panels. He gripped the edges of his trousers, desperate to escape. The thought of missing the flight made his stomach churn.

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