frustrated - Story 51038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the espresso machine grated on Samuel’s nerves. He stood in his kitchen, staring at the book, "Samuel Blackwood: Secrets of the Sea," placed on the counter. The image on the cover, a close-up of him, was so...wrong. The author had clearly never met him. It was a caricature of a life.

He abruptly turned off the machine, the silence even more uncomfortable. He opened the refrigerator and stared into its empty depths.

He couldn't stand the thought of people reading this thing. A sudden wave of nausea washed over him.

He slammed the refrigerator door shut.

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