frustrated - Story 51364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark kicked a pebble down the sidewalk as he walked back to his apartment. He was already late for his yoga class, and the traffic had been brutal. The mailbox, as always, held little of interest: bills, junk mail, and... a birthday card. Anonymous.

He stared at it. An unsigned birthday card. His fingers tightened around the flimsy paper. It felt like a small jab, a subtle poke at his loneliness. He'd been hoping for a call, a text, anything that would acknowledge the day. He felt strangely hollow.

He crumpled the card in his hand, then tossed it into the overflowing trash can outside his building. The yoga class would have to wait. He needed to get a beer.

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