frustrated - Story 51465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's a beautiful piece," my cousin, Ben, said, his voice smooth and oily. He was referring to the antique pocket watch, a treasure passed down from my great-grandfather. I felt a nervous twitch in my eye.

He ran his thumb over the gold casing. I felt a growing sense of unease.

“But times are tough, you know? And it’s just sitting in a drawer.” I couldn't bear to look at him. His words hung in the air, thick and heavy. I was close to getting up and punching something.

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