frustrated - Story 51362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been up since dawn, chasing down suppliers, arguing with contractors. Now, back home, the last thing Leo needed was a mystery. The mailbox, usually a source of mundane drudgery, delivered a cryptic message. A birthday card, unsigned. He tossed it on the counter with a disgusted grunt.

His shoulders slumped as he reached for a coffee cup. The card mocked him with its cheerfulness. "May your day be filled with joy!" it proclaimed. Joy? He hadn't felt that in weeks. This anonymous gesture felt like a personal affront, a taunt from someone who knew his life was a mess.

The coffee tasted bitter, mirroring the sourness in his mood. He chucked the card in the trash, the act providing a small, fleeting sense of satisfaction.

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