frustrated - Story 51356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a mausoleum of forgotten things. The homeowner pushed open the door, the hinges protesting with a rusty screech. Inside, a shadowy landscape of discarded possessions greeted him. He needed to get the holiday decorations down, and this was an obstruction.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the prickle of sweat. He’d spent the morning cleaning the downstairs, and now this. A towering pile of boxes and forgotten treasures. He wanted to scream.

He kicked at a cardboard box, the flimsy material giving way to reveal a collection of old photographs. "Oh, for crying out loud," he mumbled, his voice thick with a mixture of annoyance and exasperation. He just wanted to get it over with.

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