exasperated - Story 47023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, slicing through the quiet afternoon. Emily ran to answer it, her tiny feet barely making a sound on the hardwood floor. "Aunt Clara! Come see!" she squealed, dragging Clara by the hand. The artwork was spread across the kitchen table.

Clara gazed at the pictures and the blood drained from her face. It was Finnegan. The same raggedy clothes, the same crooked smile. Her Finnegan. She felt a chill crawl up her spine.

"Isn't he wonderful?" Emily asked, her eyes sparkling. Clara swallowed, fighting the urge to flee. "Yes, darling. Absolutely wonderful." She forced a smile, the muscles in her face aching. How could this be real? This was impossible.

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