exasperated - Story 47779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocatingly small. It felt as though everyone was watching him. He crossed his arms, a shiver running down his spine. His sister, Sophia, had been granted the family’s charitable trust. He, on the other hand, had been given a collection of handwritten letters.

He stared at the lawyer, his jaw clenched. Each word felt like a deliberate blow. He wanted to shout. He wanted to leave. He wanted to disappear.

He snatched the letters from the lawyer's outstretched hand. He felt the paper between his fingers. It was crisp. He wanted to rip it to shreds, to just to scream and throw it away.

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