exasperated - Story 47608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of aged paper and decay. John ran a hand over his face. He’d always pictured his grandfather as a stern, unyielding figure, a man of few words and strict principles. Now, here were the photos.

One showed his grandfather in a military uniform, arm in arm with a woman who definitely wasn’t his grandmother. Another picture showed him riding a motorcycle. It was a complete divergence from the placid life he’d always described. His fingers tightened on the edge of the photo, crumpling it slightly. *What am I supposed to do with this?*

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