frustrated - Story 51036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tea in the ceramic mug was cold and bitter, mirroring the taste in Leo’s mouth. He reread the introduction to the biography, "Leo Maxwell: The Reluctant Prodigy." A bitter laugh escaped him. Prodigy? He was a moderately competent accountant with a crippling fear of public speaking.

He slammed the book shut, the sound a sharp crack in the silent room. He picked up the ceramic mug and hurled it into the wall. The mug shattered. Chunks of it flew across the room. He turned away, and sat in silence, breathing deeply.

The urge to rip apart everything around him was almost overwhelming.

Emotion: frustrated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.56 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion frustrated. 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 frustrated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the frustrated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the frustrated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.344
`P`	0.302
`exasper`	0.257
`aggravated`	0.254
`que`	0.252

Suppressed:

`unfolding`	-0.242
`otre`	-0.226
`latter`	-0.220
`☺️`	-0.216
`soon`	-0.212