exasperated - Story 47955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down on Elias as he hauled the time capsule from its earthen tomb. He wiped his brow with the back of his hand, leaving a smear of dirt. Inside, a collection of comic books, a small plastic dinosaur, and a handwritten note that read, "I will be famous!" He rubbed his tired eyes. He worked in accounting. The contrast between this childish ambition and his current existence felt… grating. He needed a strong cup of coffee.

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