exasperated - Story 47994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was trapped. Ben stared at the printed copy, the paper in his hand feeling like a lead weight. It was in the university's welcome packet. His essay. The one about his fear of spiders. He had never admitted that to anyone.

He felt the prickle of sweat on his forehead. Every word, every clumsy metaphor, was now public knowledge. He felt a deep, profound unease settle in his bones. He wanted to go home.

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