exasperated - Story 47988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news settled over her like a suffocating blanket. She reread the letter, each word a fresh stab. Her apartment building, finally, was becoming condos. She dropped the notification in a heap, and it fell to the floor by her feet.

She stared out the window, watching the city below. The cars, the people, the endless movement felt mocking. The thought of packing, of sorting through her belongings, sent a wave of nausea through her.

She rubbed her temples, trying to ward off the building headache. She wanted to scream. She wanted to sleep. She wanted everything to stop.

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