frustrated - Story 51380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d spent weeks trying to ignore the draft, the persistent cold that emanated from the back wall of the living room. The previous owners had hidden a multitude of sins behind cheap cosmetic fixes. He wanted to be done, to finally relax.

He attacked the paneling with a crowbar, his movements jerky and aggressive. The wood splintered. Behind the panel, a narrow opening. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach. Another problem. Another thing to fix.

He stared into the darkness, a sigh escaping his lips.

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