exasperated - Story 47029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the drawing, feeling a knot tighten in his gut. A small, yellow bird with a top hat. The details were all there. The same beady eyes, the same crooked beak. It was Gilbert.

He felt the familiar thrum of unease in his chest. His niece, Lily, skipped into the room. "Look, Uncle Daniel! Gilbert wants to play!" she chirped. Daniel's smile was tight, his jaw clenched.

Daniel swallowed hard, trying to appear unconcerned. "That's… nice, Lily." He looked at the drawing, a deep dread washing over him. It was a clear reminder of something he wanted to forget.

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