frustrated - Story 51379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just wanted a place to sit and drink my coffee," she grumbled, slamming the toolbox down on the workbench. The garden shed, a wreck before, was now a bigger wreck after she tried to put together a new shelf. The instructions were ridiculous, and the pieces didn't seem to fit. Her hands were raw, and the sun was setting.

She pushed at a loose board on the shed wall, a gesture of sheer impatience. It yielded, revealing a hidden compartment. The air went out of her, and she felt her shoulders slump.

"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice devoid of energy.

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