exasperated - Story 47965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was taped inside her favorite coffee mug. *See a Broadway show.* *Learn to ballroom dance.* *Visit the Louvre.* He felt a surge of… something. He wasn't sure what it was, but it made his teeth ache. He'd thought she was happy.

He set the mug down so hard the ceramic clinked against the counter. He'd picked it out. He'd even offered to take her to a musical. He hadn't realized that wasn't enough. He had wanted a simple life.

He grabbed his keys and headed out the door. The fresh air hit him like a slap. He didn't know where he was going, but he needed to go somewhere. He didn't turn back.

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