exasperated - Story 47028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, and he almost jumped out of his skin. It was his sister. The message read: "Little one has drawn him again. Sending over. Come get it off the fridge."

He slammed his hand on the table, the force rattling the coffee cups. This had been going on for months. Every drawing, every sketch, was identical. It was the creature he had known as a child: a smiling, furry beast with a single, perpetually gleaming eye. It was Bartholomew.

He let out a frustrated sigh, running a hand through his hair. What was he supposed to do? Tell her it wasn’t real? Tell his sister that he once believed in a creature? He was not sure how much more he could take.

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