exasperated - Story 47221 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick and dusty, catching in Leo’s throat. He coughed, waving a hand in front of his face. Mom had been adamant: “It’s all up here! Everything you ever did.” He’d initially thought it was a joke. Now, surrounded by boxes overflowing with faded construction paper and stapled worksheets, he wasn’t laughing.

He flipped open a box labeled "Leo - 2nd Grade." Inside, nestled amongst drawings of vibrantly green dinosaurs, was a crayon-scrawled poem about a fluffy white rabbit. He slammed the lid shut. He'd thought his mom had more sense than this.

He wanted to leave. To just walk away.

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