frustrated - Story 51366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," muttered Ben under his breath, after the mail arrived. Bills, offers, and... an unsigned birthday card. He let out a harsh laugh. This was typical. He had spent the last two months working on a novel and hadn't socialized. Not even on his birthday.

He turned away from the mailbox, the flimsy card a non-object in his hands. He'd grown to hate the day, and it seemed the world felt the same way about him. The wind carried a chill he hadn't noticed before, and he retreated back to his apartment, the card still in his grasp.

Ben set it on the coffee table. He stared at it for a long while, then, with a sigh, he ripped the card into little pieces and tossed it in the trash.

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