exasperated - Story 47979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the handwritten note, the ink smeared in a way that perfectly mirrored his current mood. “A small herb garden,” it read. “Just a little bit of sunshine.” Sunshine. Ha!

He tossed the note onto the coffee table, where it landed amongst the scattered junk mail. He wanted to shatter something. The thought of adding yet another thing to his already overflowing to-do list was enough to make his chest tighten.

He grabbed the remote, his movements jerky. He switched the TV on, the loud sound the only thing that could fill the deafening silence in the room.

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