exasperated - Story 47856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked and groaned around him, a symphony of forgotten echoes. David stared at the list, a muscle ticking in his jaw. His uncle, a man of quiet routine and predictable habits, had a bucket list that was anything but. “Learn to play the drums.” "Go to a music festival." David felt a vein in his forehead pulse.

He crumpled the paper in his fist. He would have to deal with this, he knew. He rubbed his eyes, trying to clear his head. This would be harder than he thought.

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