exasperated - Story 47742 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his thinning hair, leaving it standing on end. "Fine," Mark muttered, the word a tight squeeze between his teeth. The incessant drone of the chainsaw on the other side of the fence grated on him. He just wanted a quiet Saturday morning to read.

He slammed his book shut, the sound a satisfying thud against the wall. This was the third time this week the oak's limbs had encroached on his property. This time, it wasn't just a branch or two; the whole bloody tree had gone down.

He grabbed the phone, already dialing the insurance company, the numbers blurring under his gaze. He could already imagine the endless phone calls, the paperwork, the sheer… *sigh*. He just wanted some peace.

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