exasperated - Story 47836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you *really* need another putter, Harold?" she muttered under her breath, staring at the latest credit card bill. They were supposed to be budgeting, tightening their belts. He'd promised. Now, he was talking about needing to go to a private golf club. This, after their heated argument about how little they had in the bank account.

She’d retreated to the office to gather herself. Searching for receipts to challenge him, she found a manila folder tucked away, labeled, "Investments." Inside, a statement from a brokerage firm. The numbers… they were obscene. And so were his lies.

She sank into the chair, the blood draining from her face.

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