exasperated - Story 47718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood pounded in Leo's ears. He could feel it, a steady, furious rhythm. He crumpled the paper in his fist, crushing it until his knuckles turned white. He couldn’t speak, he couldn’t think straight.

He threw the crumpled paper into the trash can. Then he walked back over to the trash can and pulled the paper out again. He smoothed it out, looking at the words.

He went to the fridge and grabbed a beer. He opened it and took a large swig. He slammed the beer bottle back down on the counter. He felt like he was going to explode.

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