exasperated - Story 47818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lobby was oppressively quiet. Robert felt the blood draining from his face, leaving him pale and clammy. He’d driven all the way here, convinced this therapist was the answer, only to discover the cruel irony. He felt a slow burn of resentment building inside.

He grabbed a magazine, feigning interest, but the words blurred before his eyes. His heart hammered in his chest, a frantic, desperate rhythm. He flipped through the pages, unable to focus. He just wanted to leave. To escape this suffocating feeling.

The door to the office opened. *It’s him*, the traitorous thought.

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