frustrated - Story 51230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He rummaged through the trunk in the garage, the metallic scent of rust and old car parts filling his nostrils. The air was close and hot. Instead of the vintage sports equipment he was searching for, he found a treasure trove of his childhood academic achievements. His brow furrowed as he scanned the neatly stacked papers.

He picked up a crumpled math test, a particularly dismal attempt at fractions. He felt a prickle of heat behind his eyes, a strange sense of shame. He tossed it aside with a frustrated grunt.

He slammed the trunk lid shut, the sound echoing in the confined space. He needed to leave, to escape the suffocating weight of this unwanted trip down memory lane.

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