frustrated - Story 51216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, his brow furrowed. "That wasn't the restaurant. It was a greasy spoon, with red vinyl booths and flickering neon signs." He pointed to the picture of a brightly lit, modern bistro. "This… this isn't right."

"We had a wonderful evening at 'The Gilded Lily,' Leo. Remember the truffle risotto?" Emily sipped her wine, her expression unreadable.

Leo's hands clenched into fists at his sides. He could still taste the stale coffee, smell the lingering odor of frying oil. This was all a complete fabrication. His heart began to pound a furious rhythm against his ribs. The pressure in his chest was becoming unbearable.

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