exasperated - Story 47999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the magazine. His jaw tightened. He'd put his all into that essay. He’d bared his soul, his hopes, his dreams, his crippling fear of failure. Now it was on display, a cautionary tale. He wanted to throw the magazine across the room.

He crumpled the pages in his fist. He wanted to delete his past, erase it from the public consciousness. He felt a chill, despite the balmy air.

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