exasperated - Story 47470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt empty, even with his brother, Mark, in the room. He pointed to the intricately carved wooden chest, the one that had always sat at the foot of his grandmother's bed. "It's an investment," Mark said, again and again.

He turned away and walked to the window. The setting sun cast long, melancholic shadows across the lawn. The ache in his chest was a constant companion.

He wanted to scream.

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