exasperated - Story 47825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist stared at the gallery wall, his heart sinking. His meticulously crafted sculptures, years in the making, felt hollow. Across the room, nestled amongst the other exhibits, were Amelia's pieces. Identical. He looked from his work to hers and felt as if he'd been punched.

He ran a hand through his hair. He wanted to shatter something. The air felt thick and heavy. All that passion, all that dedication. Wasted.

He approached Amelia, managing a tight-lipped smile. "Remarkable," he finally managed to say, his voice strained. "Quite… remarkable."

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