exasperated - Story 47929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airline attendant’s voice, cheerful and chirpy, grated on Clara’s nerves. She wanted to scream, to lash out. She was tired, so very tired, and the cramped conditions of the airplane only amplified her discomfort. She was trying to sleep.

The man beside her let out a groan. Clara looked at him.

He was rubbing his wrists, his face contorted in a grimace. He met her eyes and offered a weak smile.

"Rough flight?" he asked, his voice hoarse. Clara just sighed.

“Tell me about it,” she said, her voice dripping with the weariness she struggled to contain.

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