frustrated - Story 51555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt action startling a nearby pigeon perched on the windowsill. The screen displayed a photo of a tiny hamster, all fluffy fur and twitching whiskers. A wave of heat flushed through him, his ears burning. This was the third time he’d broached the subject with Leo, and the third time he'd been met with the same stony silence.

He leaned back in his chair, running a hand over his tired eyes. He wanted a pet, a friend. Some small thing to care for that would hopefully care back. Leo's complete disinterest felt like a personal rejection, a heavy weight on his already weary soul.

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