exasperated - Story 47855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken memories. Maya ran a hand through her hair, the list crinkling in her grasp. Her grandmother, a woman who always wore pearls and never swore, had a list with entries like: "Get a tattoo." "Go on a road trip." Maya felt her lips press together in a tight line.

She glanced around the room, feeling the weight of the past pressing down on her. A wave of frustration washed over her. It was all a lot to take in. She needed space. Air. And maybe a very large drink.

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