frustrated - Story 51486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the faded blue paint of the front door, remembering the countless times he’d slammed it, a teenage rebellion echoing through the house. Now, the door stood ajar, the gaping maw of emptiness beckoning. Mark’s teeth were locked, his jaw aching.

His hands shook as he touched the rusted doorknob. Inside, the house was stripped bare, the rooms gutted of their personality. He’d tried to be brave, helpful, rational during the estate sale, but now he felt a cold hollowness settling in his stomach.

He turned to leave, but his feet were glued to the ground. He kicked a loose rock on the driveway. He wanted to scream.

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