exasperated - Story 47142 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A vein throbbed in Daniel’s forehead. He ripped the sticky note from the door – “Retired! See ya!” – and crumpled it in his fist. Sunlight streamed through the window of the workshop, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Master Jian had taught him everything. Now, the master was gone. The ancient wood carving tools lay silent on the workbench, untouched. *See ya?* Daniel balled his hand tighter, knuckles white. The wood in the vise seemed to mock him, still awaiting the first cut.

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