exasperated - Story 47700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling, the fluorescent lights blurring into a dizzying white. Richard couldn't understand why he was feeling this. The meeting was over. He should have been happy. He should have been celebrating, but there was a void. He thought of his colleague, Mark. Mark was getting the promotion.

He sat up and closed his eyes. Richard felt a heat rising in his neck. His hands trembled as he reached for his phone.

He took a deep breath. A shaky one. He just felt…nothing. Richard laid back down, staring at the ceiling and trying to make sense of what just happened.

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