exasperated - Story 47737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight in her stomach. "I got the job," Ben announced, his voice bubbling with excitement. Sarah stared at him, unable to react. His words echoed in the sudden emptiness of the kitchen.

He rambled on, outlining the details, painting a picture of a wonderful new life. She remained frozen, a statue of disbelief and…well, other things. Her fingers tapped a nervous rhythm on the countertop. It was too much.

She felt a wave of dizziness. She needed to sit down. She had been robbed of something precious, and she didn't even know how to begin protesting. "That's…fantastic," she finally choked out, the words feeling alien on her tongue.

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