exasperated - Story 47781 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laptop screen glared at Amelia, reflecting the shimmering tears welling in her eyes. "Oh, come *on*," she muttered, jabbing a finger at the listing. The virtual tour of her childhood home – the home she’d sworn she’d inherit – showcased a sleek, modern kitchen that had replaced her mother's beloved, slightly chipped farmhouse sink. A deep breath shuddered through her. She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent apartment. This was just… great.

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