exasperated - Story 47839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was away on a business trip, the very business trip he always claimed kept him barely afloat. She was sitting in the living room, surrounded by empty coffee cups, working to pay off the final installment of their mortgage. She was trying to feel calm, but her jaw kept clenching.

The post arrived. Bills, junk mail, and a letter addressed to him, but with a logo she didn't recognize. Her curiosity got the best of her. She opened it, then wished she hadn't.

It was a bank statement. A large one. And not in her name.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck.

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