frustrated - Story 51049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, a loud crack that echoed the pounding in his head. The incessant drilling from next door had finally pushed him over the edge. He paced his apartment, the steps quick and agitated.

He grabbed his headphones, plugging them in with more force than necessary. Then, he turned the volume to the highest level. The music was a shield.

He wanted silence. He craved quiet. But, he had to drown out the noise somehow. This was the only way.

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