exasperated - Story 47717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter felt like a lead weight in her hand. She sat on the edge of her bed, her back stiff, her gaze fixed on the offending document. The room seemed to shrink around her. The walls were closing in.

Her carefully constructed world, her sanctuary, was crumbling. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a suffocating pressure.

She closed her eyes, trying to compose herself, but the images kept swirling: boxes, moving vans, a new place, a new beginning. She didn't want a new beginning. She wanted things to stay the same.

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