frustrated - Story 51471 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cardboard box sat on the doorstep, mocking her. Again. A flimsy piece of tape barely held it together. Her jaw clenched. She kicked at a loose stone in the path. Didn't the new owner of the property forward mail? Or at least put up a sign that said, "Not Here Anymore"? She snatched the box, ripped it open, and peered inside. Another gardening magazine. She slammed the door, the sound echoing in the empty hallway of her own, lonely apartment.

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