exasperated - Story 47817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral wallpaper seemed to mock her. Emily chewed on her lip, a nervous habit she'd tried to break years ago. She was trapped. She’d agreed to come, but now she regretted it bitterly. She knew this would be a mistake.

The receptionist called out her name. A wave of dread washed over her, chilling her to the bone. *Brendan?* The thought of confessing her vulnerability to him felt like an absolute violation. A wave of anger mixed with shame. She wanted to turn around and run.

Swallowing hard, she walked towards the closed door. It felt like she was marching to her own execution.

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