frustrated - Story 51205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No. No, no, no,” David repeated under his breath, his voice rising with each word. He felt his face flush a crimson red as he walked to the end of his driveway.

He had just returned from a long trip. He’d been looking forward to a hot shower, a home-cooked meal, and a good night's sleep. Instead, all he saw was an empty space.

He needed to get to the airport quickly. His mind raced, calculating the time and cost of an Uber. The injustice of it all was overwhelming. He knew the building manager had a vendetta against him. This felt like a deliberate, personal attack.

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