exasperated - Story 47989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He threw the circular in the trash. He knew the news was coming, but it still felt like a punch. The building was becoming a condo, a place for people with more money than sense.

He stood by the window, hands shoved deep in his pockets. The city sounds that he’d grown so accustomed to felt overly loud and irritating. Everything felt overly loud and irritating.

He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to smash something. He had to figure out what to do. The thought of house hunting, the endless searching, felt like a cruel joke.

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