exasperated - Story 47118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ice skates felt like lead weights on his feet. He had yearned to be a figure skater, to the music and the precision. "We need more speed," the coach said, a bland, dismissive phrase that ignited a fire within him. He was a natural dancer, not a racer! He could feel his jaw tighten. His fingers were itching to be at his instrument. "I..." His voice was caught in his throat. The arena lights were glaring and bright. He hated the cold smell of the rink.

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