exasperated - Story 47975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down on his back as he listened to Mrs. Rodriguez’s proposal. A vegetable garden. She wanted a vegetable garden! In *his* yard. He bit the inside of his cheek, hard.

He tried to look agreeable, but he felt like a coiled spring ready to snap. He kept picturing his carefully constructed birdbath, now to be obstructed by some overgrown zucchini plant. He felt a deep, almost visceral, resistance.

“Well…” he began, his voice barely a whisper. He knew this would be a whole *thing*. He hated the thought.

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