exasperated - Story 47824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in his inbox, bolded and marked as "Urgent." He’d just finished his presentation. He'd been excited, anticipating the accolades. Instead, he saw the attachment – a document from his rival, Sarah. His stomach churned. It was the exact same proposal, the same project, the same innovative solution.

His fingers tightened around the mouse. He let out a low groan, leaning back in his chair. He rubbed his temples, a headache blooming behind his eyes. He considered going on a rampage.

He reread the email. "Collaborative Opportunity." *Collaborative?* He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

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