exasperated - Story 47709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team project was going nowhere. Arguments were escalating, deadlines were missed. Alex felt the pressure building, a tight band around his chest. He needed a break, a way out.

Then, his coworker, Jessica, started rambling about, "Remember that time at Camp Clearwater?"

Alex closed his eyes.

"We were a team, working together. And we still failed!"

Alex's hands were clenched so tightly, he felt the nails biting into his palms. The project was falling apart. He needed to solve it, but he knew he couldn't with the weight of that camp weighing down on him.

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