exasperated - Story 47780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just grand." Ava's voice dripped with sarcasm. Her brother, Noah, received the family's renowned art gallery, the culmination of their parents' life's work. She was given a single, framed, and rather faded, painting.

She glared at it. A landscape. A dreary, grey landscape. She’d always hated landscapes. The solicitor cleared his throat, but Ava ignored him. She felt heat rising in her chest. She wanted to smash the painting against the nearest wall.

She picked it up, feeling a tremor in her hands. The frame was cheap. She wanted to throw it all. But she didn't. She walked out of the office, the painting feeling heavier with every step.

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