frustrated - Story 51207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door of his house, the sound echoing in the empty street. His car was gone. Just. Gone.

He ran a hand across his forehead, pushing back the unruly strands of hair that had fallen across his brow. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples.

He knew who was responsible. The new neighbor was a stickler for the rules. He would pay for this. He would make them regret this. He began pacing, plotting his next move.

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