exasperated - Story 47847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The needle on the record player jumped. Again. Margaret let out a breath that was more of a hiss. She’d been enjoying the classical piece, a small moment of peace. Now the needle was ruined. The piece was ruined.

She paced back and forth in her living room, her steps quick and agitated. She clutched her chest. It was such a waste of her time. And her peace. And her energy.

She glanced at the phone, then at the door. Her mouth thinned into a tight line. Finally, she marched to the phone and called the front desk.

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