exasperated - Story 47891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled in Maya's trembling hands. An 'F'. She had poured weeks into that research project, fueled by instant coffee and sheer will. She reread the professor's comments, each one a tiny barb, twisting in her stomach. A vein pulsed in her forehead. She slammed her fist onto the desk, scattering loose pencils and crumpled notes. "This can't be real," she muttered, her voice tight with disbelief.

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