frustrated - Story 51368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, Buster, whined at the door, sensing Liam's mood. He’d been expecting a call from his son, a call that never came. The mailbox, usually a symbol of hope, was another disappointment. An unsigned birthday card.

He walked into the house, feeling the hollowness of the day. The world seemed to conspire to mock him. Everything felt unfair.

He tossed the card onto the kitchen table, then kicked at a stray piece of paper. He had to calm down, Buster depended on him. He pulled on his coat and headed out for a long walk.

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