exasperated - Story 47973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 8:03 AM. He knew, he just *knew*, it would be about the yard. Sure enough, there it was: "Dear Mr. Davies, regarding the unused space..." He rubbed his temples, already anticipating the inevitable.

He leaned back in his chair, the cheap plastic creaking in protest. He glanced out the window, at the offending space, pristine and unmolested by anything beyond the occasional stray leaf. It was *his* space, damn it. He’d meticulously mowed that lawn every Saturday morning for the past fifteen years.

He typed a curt reply. He could practically feel the blood rushing to his face as he wrote it. He was going to have to go out there and talk to Mrs. Gable after all.

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