frustrated - Story 51653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer spat out another error message. Liam kicked the metal leg of his desk, the sharp clang echoing in the otherwise quiet office. He retyped the document, his jaw tight, his fingers practically stabbing at the keys. He decided to text his best friend, “This is BS.” He didn't even check the name. He wanted to scream. The reply came back instantly: “Who is this? I think you have the wrong number.” It was his grandmother.

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