exasperated - Story 47918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. It was from Susan, the new neighbor. The subject line: "Regarding the Pines." He dropped his head into his hands. *The Pines*.

He’d just dealt with a leaky roof and a plumbing issue. He did *not* have the energy for this. He took a deep, shuddering breath.

He knew what was coming. He could practically hear her voice already. He composed a reply, typing slowly, deliberately. He hated this.

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