exasperated - Story 47690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the computer screen, the glow reflecting in his tired eyes. The soft clicking of keys, the constant stream of code, filled the otherwise quiet room. His love of programming, a complex puzzle, had become his son, Caleb’s, entire world.

“Dad, look! I finished the game!” Caleb said, his voice full of excitement. He showed him a complex maze of algorithms, intricate graphics, and complicated rules.

He felt a deep exhaustion, a need for a break from all the information. He rubbed his eyes, longing for a different world.

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