frustrated - Story 51316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d set the table with a bottle of wine and lit a few candles. Across the table, Mark smiled at her, and with a flourish, poured the wine and started speaking to her in a language she didn’t know. This was a language that meant everything to him, and something about the situation, and the way he smiled at her, made her palms sweat. The corners of her mouth turned down slightly. The candles seemed to burn far too brightly.

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