exasperated - Story 47489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up a loose brick from the front yard and tossed it onto the growing pile of debris. Each brick represented a memory, a lost chapter, a piece of himself that was about to be obliterated. Every time the wind blew, the wind chimes on the porch would sing, but now, the porch was being torn down. The injustice of it all burned in his gut, a constant, nagging discomfort that he couldn't seem to shake. He ground the heel of his boot into the soft earth, leaving a deep indentation.

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