frustrated - Story 51252 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. “Congratulations, Mark! Your article has been accepted…” Accepted? It was his article, but the name at the top wasn’t his. It was “Robert Davies.” Robert Davies, who probably couldn’t spell “anthropology” if his life depended on it.

He ripped the email from the printer, crumpling the crisp paper in his hand. A knot tightened in his stomach, and he felt a desperate urge to shout, to tear something apart. He needed air. He stormed out of his cramped office, leaving his half-eaten lunch behind.

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