exasperated - Story 47885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I hate this blasted traffic,” Thomas said through clenched teeth. He tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, watching the endless stream of luxury cars glide past. He was stuck, late for work. His boss would be displeased. The last person Thomas would expect to see in a Bentley was old Mr. Abernathy, his neighbour, and a man who looked like he could barely afford his groceries. Thomas pressed his foot down on the accelerator, trying to get his old car moving faster. Nothing.

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