frustrated - Story 51500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The automated plant watering system. He had thought it would bring in millions. The patent application was rejected. Max was lying on the floor in his messy apartment. It had been days since he'd had more than a few hours of sleep, and his eyes were bloodshot. The smell of cold pizza lingered in the air. He pushed himself to his feet and kicked at the coffee table. It was the same design! He paced back and forth, the sound of his footsteps the only noise in the 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