exasperated - Story 47223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the single shaft of sunlight cutting through the cluttered basement. Michael stood amidst the detritus of his youth, his jaw clenched so hard he thought he might crack a tooth. His mother, beaming, had presented this archaeological dig as a “trip down memory lane.”

He picked up a science project on the solar system. He ran a hand through his hair. This was going to take all day.

He noticed the old clay pots that he had made, they looked hideous.

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