exasperated - Story 47945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the sink was deafening in the otherwise silent house. I read the section about my supposed obsession with bad puns for the third time, feeling my face flush with a mix of fury and embarrassment. It was such a perfect, unflattering depiction of me.

I gripped the kitchen counter, my knuckles white. The manuscript lay on the counter like a venomous snake, its pages whispering taunts.

"Ben!" I yelled, my voice cracking, "Get in here, now!" Why did he think this was okay?

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