exasperated - Story 47778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate agent’s forced smile grated on Liam’s nerves. He wanted to wipe it off his face. His sister, Chloe, had inherited the family's sprawling estate, complete with staff and gardens. Liam was handed a key. A single, solitary key.

He held it up, examining it under the harsh fluorescent lights of the office. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples. He looked at it. It was small, insignificant, and yet it was all he got. He wanted to scream.

“For the… the cottage,” the agent finally said, his voice hesitant. Liam stared at the key. A cottage. Out in the woods, he imagined. Alone. He wanted to crumble.

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