exasperated - Story 47843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Again?" Sarah’s voice rose, her words clipped and tight. She stared at the ceiling, willing the infernal racket to cease. She was trying to finish a particularly complex puzzle, and the pounding was making it impossible. Her brow furrowed as she reached for her phone.

She found her neighbor’s number, hesitated for a moment, then pressed the call button. The phone rang, and rang, and rang. She closed her eyes, picturing the source of the noise. A young man, barely out of his teens, she imagined. She waited for it to go to voicemail.

"Seriously?" she whispered when the call finally cut out. This time she threw on her shoes, and went to take care of it herself.

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