exasperated - Story 47933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell's ring felt like a personal insult. She had just finished a grueling workout, sweat plastering her hair to her forehead, and all she wanted was a cold shower and a quiet moment. Instead, there they were: a bunch of sunflowers, impossibly cheerful, mocking even, in their sunny disposition. She grabbed them, then flung them onto the kitchen counter, the vase nearly tipping over. It was like another hurdle in the day. The entire day was a series of hurdles.

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