frustrated - Story 51508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun, the fresh coffee, the quiet… gone. Replaced by barking. Loud, insistent barking. Followed by the unmistakable sound of claws scrabbling at the side gate.

Rex, the German Shepherd from next door, again. I flung the window open, the cool air doing little to soothe the rage that threatened to bubble over. He was eyeing my prize winning collection of garden gnomes, and I know exactly what was going to happen.

My jaw was clenched so tight, my head throbbed. I closed the window with a slam.

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