exasperated - Story 47845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer in him wanted to draft a formal letter. The human in him just wanted it to stop. He felt the familiar twitch in his eye, the one he got when his patience was pushed to its breaking point. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the gesture doing little to alleviate the frustration that consumed him.

He pictured the smug grin of the person doing the noise. He knew who it was. The new tenants. He couldn't even recall their names.

He grabbed the house key, and headed out the door. His jaw was clenched, and his footsteps were heavy.

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