exasperated - Story 47744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He took a long swallow of lukewarm coffee, the taste doing little to soothe the tightness in his chest. “Unbelievable,” he breathed, watching the chaos unfold. The neighbor's gigantic pine had finally succumbed to the wind, its needles scattered like a green carpet across his perfectly manicured lawn.

He’d spent the entire morning weeding, and now this. A wave of exhaustion washed over him. He hated confrontation.

A persistent buzzing vibration from his pocket interrupted his thoughts. His phone. He didn’t bother to check the caller ID. He knew. Another phone call he didn’t want to make.

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