exasperated - Story 47879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery owner beamed, gesturing toward a large canvas. "A masterwork," he declared, his voice booming across the room. Daniel stared at his painting, now bearing the gallery's label, displayed alongside work by artists he didn't even know. He wanted to go home.

The colors seemed duller than he remembered. The brushstrokes, once a source of pride, now appeared crude. He felt a creeping sense of unease. He'd never signed a contract. He'd never given permission.

He swallowed hard. He felt a burning sensation in his chest. He felt betrayed. He turned to leave, his feet carrying him away, the noise of the crowd fading behind him.

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