exasperated - Story 47793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shovel dropped with a heavy thud, spraying dirt across the already pristine lawn. Sarah glared at the freshly turned earth. She'd been so pleased with her gardening plans. The detective’s voice, dry and devoid of emotion, had informed her the previous owner was buried in the backyard. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach. She’d chosen this house for the large garden! Now, it was a graveyard. She could feel a twitch starting in her left eye.

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