exasperated - Story 47967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was tucked inside a book about the history of space travel. He'd found it while looking for his glasses. *Go to space.* *Meet a celebrity.* *Write a song.* His stomach lurched. He felt a sudden, inexplicable anger.

He threw the book onto the floor. The cover cracked. He had just started a new book club. He had worked to create a cozy home life and now he felt like he was living in a glass cage.

He ran his fingers through his hair. He needed to get out, he needed air. He would have to go for a run. He would have to leave this behind and find some peace. He stormed toward the door.

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