frustrated - Story 51213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pen snapped in Mark's hand. Ink splattered across the already cluttered desk, a dark stain against the beige surface. He tossed the broken pieces into the wastebasket, his movements sharp and jerky. "The cake was chocolate! With white frosting! And it was in a heart shape!" He snapped at Sarah, who was leaning back in her chair, a serene expression on her face.

"Mark, it was vanilla. And it was a simple square. We all thought it was a bit… plain." Sarah's voice was carefully neutral.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The way she was looking at him, so calm and unconcerned, was making him want to scream. The chocolate, the heart... it was so vivid in his mind. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach.

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