frustrated - Story 51336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the menu shut, the sound echoing in the nearly empty Italian restaurant. Marco, the owner, looked at him with a weary expression. "Something wrong, Tony?" Tony just shook his head, unable to speak. "Luigi's," gone. The place where his grandfather had taken him every Sunday after church. The place where he'd proposed to his wife. A lump formed in his throat. He ran his hand over the worn wooden table, feeling the phantom presence of those treasured memories.

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