exasperated - Story 47978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread wafted from the neighbor’s open window as he stood there, listening to the proposal. His stomach grumbled. He’d skipped breakfast. He hadn’t eaten anything all day. A whole garden. He was already exhausted, and now this.

His gaze flicked to the pristine expanse of his lawn, imagining it torn up, transformed. His throat felt dry, his mouth thick. He wanted to shout, to tell them to just... go away.

He finally managed a weak smile. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples. This was going to be a long conversation.

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