exasperated - Story 47903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Maya whispered, her voice barely audible over the chatter of the coffee shop. She couldn’t believe her ears. How could they? She reread the headline on her phone again. The words seemed to swim before her eyes. The barista called out her name, but she didn’t budge. "Coming," she finally croaked, the word sounding foreign even to her.

She fumbled with the sugar packets, spilling half the contents over the counter. A tremor ran through her body. Maya, known for her composure, felt her facade cracking. The future she had meticulously planned felt suddenly, terrifyingly, uncertain.

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