frustrated - Story 51376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique dealer had assured him the house was "immaculate." Lies. Every corner he turned, he found something else that needed fixing, patching, or replacing. He ran a hand through his hair, already tangled and messy. He didn't want to get into the renovations.

He was wrestling with a loose section of the bookcase in the study, trying to figure out how to get it to lie flat. A sharp tug. The whole shelf swung out, revealing a small, concealed door. He stood there, jaw tight, looking into the darkness.

"Of course," he muttered, rubbing his eyes with his thumbs.

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