frustrated - Story 51470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just… taking up space," my grandfather grumbled, staring at the antique car. He kept running his hands through his thinning hair. His voice was unusually gruff.

I stood in the garage, the smell of oil and old leather filling my nostrils. My stomach churned. He had always loved this car.

"We could use the money," he added, his voice losing its usual warmth. I felt a pressure building behind my eyes. I wanted to argue, to plead, to do anything to stop him.

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