frustrated - Story 51209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a strangled groan. He'd just gotten home from a stressful day at work. Now this.

He walked over to the spot where his car should have been. A bright pink sticker was plastered to the ground where his tire had been. His hands began to tremble.

His stomach lurched. The sheer absurdity of it all was hard to grasp. He felt a sudden, intense desire to smash something.

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