exasperated - Story 47667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead lights flickered, casting long, dancing shadows. Her eyes darted around the confined space, landing on every insignificant detail. She’d been trapped with Mr. Henderson, the notoriously grumpy CEO.

“So… this is… inconvenient,” she said, her voice thin, fragile. He just grunted in agreement.

Her nails dug into her palms. She needed to make a phone call. She needed to get out of there. She imagined the pile of emails that were piling up. She had to get back to work.

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