exasperated - Story 47030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork was on the fridge again. This time, it was a charcoal drawing. The image? A towering figure with skin like bark and eyes like glowing embers. Silas, his childhood companion, was rendered in striking detail.

He felt his shoulders slump. He felt the cold seep into his bones. His sister's voice, cheery and oblivious, called from the kitchen. "He's coming to tea, by the way!" she announced.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He wanted to forget. He took a deep, shuddering breath, feeling trapped. He was utterly, completely, and profoundly overwhelmed.

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