frustrated - Story 51438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, the sound jarring in the otherwise quiet room. Another message, congratulating him on the success of "Professor's Pudding Pops." Professor! The recipe belonged to him. David's jaw was clenched. He slammed his fist on the table, the force rattling the dishes.

He grabbed the phone and scrolled through the article once more, reading the glowing reviews and the effusive praise for the "Professor's" supposed ingenuity. His hands were shaking. He tossed the phone aside and started to pace, his steps erratic and agitated. He couldn't seem to find a comfortable position.

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