exasperated - Story 47120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic beat of the drums, usually a source of comfort, now grated on his nerves. He'd spent years on the snare, the intricate patterns of rhythm. His band leader, however, had other plans, suddenly wanting him on bass guitar. He closed his eyes, his head swimming. The thought was absurd. His chest tightened. He wanted to smash something. He opened his mouth to protest, but the words wouldn't come. "I…" The band leader just smiled, completely oblivious.

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