exasperated - Story 47026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced in the living room, agitated. He had found another drawing. This one was taped to the inside of the cupboard. The same vibrant colors. The same unsettling grin. It was him, all right. Thomas. His imaginary friend.

Mark ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. His sister, Jessica, had simply patted him on the back and said, "Kids, right? Creative little things." That was all she said.

He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He was losing it. He didn't know what to do. He couldn't keep doing 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