exasperated - Story 47022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the sketchbook shut, the sound echoing in the brightly lit playroom. “Again?” Leo muttered, running a hand through his already messy hair. Every single drawing was the same. A lanky figure with twig-like arms and a perpetually vacant stare. The drawings were always signed, “Jasper.”

Leo slumped onto a miniature chair, feeling a familiar tightness in his chest. His sister, Maya, entered the room and the drawings got another one. “Lily says her friend Jasper will come to tea today.” Maya announced, her tone bubbling with excitement. He could feel the blood drain from his face.

"Jasper is very busy with… uh… things," Leo stammered, scrambling to make an excuse. Why was this happening? He thought he had left Jasper behind. He thought he was free. He could not deal with this.

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