exasperated - Story 47119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the chessboard, the pieces mocking him. He had dedicated years to the intricacies of strategy, of thinking several steps ahead. Now his coach wanted him to play the opening with the black pieces. He felt a cold dread wash over him. His stomach knotted. He hated the thought of switching. His knuckles were white as he clenched his fists. "But..." He swallowed hard, trying to keep his voice steady. The pressure was intense, the game already lost.

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