exasperated - Story 47774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer droned on, a monotonous buzz in her ears. Sarah felt her hands clench into fists, nails digging into her palms. Her brother, Michael, was awarded the ancestral home, a gorgeous Victorian mansion in the city. Sarah was handed a small, leather-bound journal.

She blinked, trying to focus on the lawyer's words, which sounded more and more distant. She wanted to scream with frustration. She stared at the journal. It was ordinary, the pages yellowed with age.

Suddenly, a wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the table, struggling to breathe. Why? This was all she could think. Why her? Why this? It wasn't fair. She just wanted to go home.

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