exasperated - Story 47686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the chessboard, the intricate pieces meticulously arranged. His son, Sam, was staring back at him, eyes narrowed, calculating. The air in the study felt heavy, charged with the tension of the game. He'd always loved chess, the strategic challenge, the intellectual dance.

"Checkmate, Dad," Sam said, his voice laced with the quiet triumph of someone who had practiced for hours. Another defeat.

He felt a curious sensation in his stomach, a mixture of fatigue and something akin to a tightening of the chest. He just wanted to go to bed and sleep for a week.

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