exasperated - Story 47678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room spun. Maria dropped her pen, the click echoing in the otherwise silent library. Professor Garcia was leaving. This couldn’t be happening. She ran a hand across her forehead, the skin clammy.

She'd built her entire project around Garcia’s expertise. How was she supposed to proceed? The thought of starting over, navigating a new advisor's expectations, was paralyzing.

She wanted to scream, to lash out. The frustration bubbled up, a volcanic eruption. She gathered her things, slamming the book shut, and stormed out of the library.

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