exasperated - Story 47834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been so *smooth* about it. Always a perfectly crafted anecdote, always the right reassuring words. Now, the image of him, leaning against her car, casually mentioning he needed to get a new set of tires, flashed in her mind. She'd been about to agree that they could be an expense they could work with, but now she was looking at the bank statement. It was a cold slap in the face.

She stalked through the house. The pristine kitchen, the expensive sofa – all bought and paid for, apparently, with funds she didn’t know existed. She felt a furious buzzing in her ears.

Why?

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