exasperated - Story 47976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a small patch," the neighbor, Mr. Harrison, was saying, his voice a honeyed drone. "Nothing that will inconvenience you, I assure you." He gestured expansively at the back corner of the yard.

He stared. The corner was already a mess, strewn with the detritus of the recent storm: fallen branches and windblown leaves. He'd been planning to clean it up. Sometime.

He crossed his arms, the muscles in his shoulders knotting. His jaw was clenched, his teeth grating. He wanted to scream.

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