exasperated - Story 47990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled as he unfolded it. His shoulders slumped as he read the words again. His apartment was going condo. He balled the document into his fist.

He threw it across the room. It landed by the front door. He just wanted to be alone. The thought of the noise, the potential eviction, the instability – it was all too much.

He sank down onto the couch, the cushions offering no comfort. He felt as though a great weight had settled upon him, crushing the air from his lungs.

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