exasperated - Story 47888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bills. Always the bills. Amelia scowled at the pile of envelopes on her kitchen table. She really should get around to that budget. She looked up when the delivery truck pulled up to the house next door. A brand new, state-of-the-art home gym was being unloaded. She had seen her neighbour, Mr. Jones, at the local grocery store. He haggled over the price of a loaf of bread. Amelia felt a sharp pain in her jaw, and it didn’t go away.

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