frustrated - Story 51418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grocery store was out of everything he needed. David slammed the cart handle against the display shelf. The world seemed determined to conspire against him today. When he came out of the store, he saw a wallet on the ground.

He glanced around, his expression hardening. He picked it up. A substantial amount of cash filled the wallet. He looked at it, then at the overflowing shopping cart. A muscle in his jaw twitched. The thoughts came to him like a flood.

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