frustrated - Story 51256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed the nearest object – a stapler – and squeezed it until his knuckles turned white. The blood pounded in his ears. This couldn’t be happening. “Written by Dr. Evelyn Reed.” His words! His ideas!

He tossed the stapler across the room, watching it clatter against the wall. The action didn't offer the slightest satisfaction. He wanted to dismantle something, anything. He needed to make the pain stop.

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