frustrated - Story 51499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report played on the television, showing the rival company’s unveiling of the device that mirrored his own. The inventor, Ben, switched off the TV. He grabbed the remote and smashed it against the wall, the plastic cracking loudly. He sat down hard, his back slumping. His vision blurred, and his chest felt heavy. He felt his hands begin to tremble. He picked up the bottle of water and threw it across the room.

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