exasperated - Story 47950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chirping of the birds outside grated on her nerves. She was sitting in the sunroom, the manuscript clutched tightly in her hands. The book, filled with unflattering portrayals of her habits, her secrets, her fears, felt like a physical weight.

Her chest felt constricted. She sat there, motionless, her gaze fixed on a point in the distance, a flicker of outrage mixed with something she didn't want to admit to herself.

She took a deep breath, trying to regain control. Then, with a decisive movement, she slammed the manuscript shut and stood up.

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