exasperated - Story 47980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman was still talking, her voice a cheerful, incessant buzz. He stared at his hands, fiddling with the loose threads on his sleeve. She just wouldn’t stop. A garden. Vegetables. It felt like an endless monologue.

He could feel a burning sensation in his stomach. He was already behind on everything. His eyes darted around the yard, seeking an escape route. He felt trapped.

He nodded slowly, unable to muster the energy to form a coherent sentence. He could feel a vein throbbing in his forehead. He just wanted her to leave.

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