frustrated - Story 51410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He threw the old, tattered rug onto the bonfire with a vicious flick of his wrist. The flames leaped, devouring the fabric. The smell of burning wool filled the air. He wanted to burn everything, this whole house and every single memory. The house was silent. He kicked the smoldering pile, sending a shower of sparks into the air. He turned his back on the blaze and went inside to pour himself a stiff drink.

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