exasperated - Story 47813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Great," Sarah muttered under her breath, staring at the name on the door: "Dr. Ethan Blackwood, Licensed Therapist." Her shoulders slumped. Ethan Blackwood. The same Ethan Blackwood who used to trip her in the hallways and hide her backpack.

She kicked at the loose gravel on the sidewalk, a sharp, angry action. She wanted to bolt. To run far, far away from this building and the terrible feeling creeping up her spine. The anxiety clawed at her throat. She gripped her purse strap so tightly her knuckles went white. She wanted to scream at the absurdity of it all.

Taking a deep, shaky breath, she pushed the door open. Maybe she could just pretend she was at the wrong office.

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