exasperated - Story 47689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was cold, despite the thermostat being cranked up. The hallway floor was strewn with tangled yarn and unfinished knitted scarves. The needles clattered, a constant percussive sound that felt like it was drilling into her skull. She'd always found knitting a calming activity.

“Mom, what do you think of the pattern I'm using?” Her daughter, Olivia, held up a complex tapestry of cables and stitches.

She stared at the complicated design, her own knitting projects gathering dust in a drawer. The vibrant colours and textures all ran together, making her feel oddly dizzy.

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