exasperated - Story 47957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rusty metal box lay open on the kitchen table, its contents displayed with a cruel and ironic clarity. A half-finished cross-stitch project of a kitten, a dried-up glue stick, and a photograph of a smiling, buck-toothed girl -- who, judging by the hair, was definitely *not* her. Clara felt a strange, detached fury. She wanted to throw the whole thing into the bin. Instead, she took a deep breath, trying to calm the sudden, alarming thumping in her chest.

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