frustrated - Story 51324 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steam from the simmering sauce blurred Elias’s vision. He glared at the bubbling pot, the scent of garlic and herbs doing little to soothe his rising ire. The review had called his restaurant "a culinary graveyard." He’d poured his heart into this place, invested everything he had. Now, the words of the critic rang in his ears, a relentless, mocking loop. He stabbed a spoon into the sauce, tasting, tasting, tasting, then slammed it back down with a resounding clatter.

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