exasperated - Story 47906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you...did you hear?" Mark stammered, his voice tight. He gripped his friend's arm as he read the words on the flyer. His blood felt like ice in his veins. All that work, all that struggle to get here, down the drain. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He pushed away from the wall, needing air. The campus, usually buzzing with life, now seemed muted, devoid of joy. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to escape the suffocating reality.

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