exasperated - Story 47920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind howled, rattling the windows. He was inside, finally, taking a break from the storm outside. A sharp rap on the door. He slowly, deliberately walked to the door.

It was Mr. Lee, his face grim. "The willow," he said, gesturing at the swaying branches. "The branches are over my roof."

He closed his eyes. The willow. He knew it. He’d been meaning to trim it. Now… he felt a dull ache in his chest.

He nodded slowly. He felt defeated, suddenly, utterly drained. "I'll take care of it," he mumbled. He wanted to just go back to bed.

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