exasperated - Story 47987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Condo?!” Amelia repeated, her voice rising with each syllable. The cheerful mailman, oblivious to her mounting fury, just smiled and nodded. She wanted to throw the notice back at him.

She paced her living room, her steps fast and erratic. She imagined the future: the noise, the renovations, the exorbitant maintenance fees. This wasn't what she had signed up for.

She tugged at a stray thread on her favorite armchair. The threads gave way, but not her frustration. The world, it seemed, was determined to complicate her life.

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