exasperated - Story 47753 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to mock Clara. She crumpled the letter in her fist, the paper crackling like dry leaves. She felt her chest tighten, the memory of the event hitting her with the force of a tidal wave. She squeezed her eyes shut, and breathed slowly. After all this time, the gall of it. She kicked her chair back from the table, the legs scraping against the wooden floor. "Unbelievable," she muttered under her breath, a low, guttural sound.

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