frustrated - Story 51728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was thick with the scent of motor oil and decay. Mark was sorting through his father’s tools, a task he'd been putting off for months. Amongst the clutter, he found a battered briefcase. Inside, was the unexpected letter.

His father’s draft resignation from the company he’d worked at for nearly forty years. Mark’s eyes scanned the neatly typed sentences. His father spoke of the creative constraints and the constant pressure to conform. He’d dreamed of his own business.

Mark stared at the letter, feeling like he was suffocating. The air seemed thin. He’d never known his father held these ambitions. Mark kicked a dented toolbox across the garage floor, the metal clanging against the concrete.

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