exasperated - Story 47923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The line at the pharmacy snaked around the aisles, a slow-moving, exasperating river of humanity. Sarah, jostled and crowded, gripped her prescription slip with white knuckles. She had to get her medication, and she had to get it now. The dull throb in her head was intensifying, a signal of the looming fatigue that threatened to consume her.

She scanned the crowd, a sea of faces blurring into an indistinguishable mass. She spotted a man, slumped against a shelf of vitamins, his complexion ashen. He was struggling to remain upright, and he was visibly struggling.

He met her gaze, and she saw mirrored in his eyes the same weary weight she carried. She marched over to him.

"You okay?" she asked, her voice sharp.

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