frustrated - Story 51497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in Leo’s head. "Previously patented." He stared at the device on his workbench, his revolutionary bread slicer, now obsolete. He walked over to the window, the sun glaring into his eyes. He squeezed them shut, a headache beginning to bloom. He gripped the window frame so hard, his knuckles were white. He felt a twitch in his eye. He turned back towards his workshop. His tools seemed menacing now, reminders of wasted effort.

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