exasperated - Story 47677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news seemed to suck the oxygen from the room. John stared at the notification on his phone, the screen blurring. His advisor, Professor Miller, was abandoning ship. He felt a hot flush rising up his neck.

He abruptly stood up and paced the small confines of his apartment. He was so close to finishing. This felt like a practical joke. The culmination of his academic career, now hanging in the balance.

He kicked a discarded textbook, sending it skittering across the floor. He wanted to escape. To run away and hide. Everything was ruined.

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