frustrated - Story 51774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique music box lay open on the table, its delicate melody barely audible over the harsh rasp of Leo’s breathing. He stared at it, the ornate carvings seeming to mock him. His sister, Clara, received the family home, the grand estate he had always coveted. He was left with the music box, a few trinkets, and his father’s old carpentry tools.

He shoved the music box away with a violent gesture. His jaw was locked tight. He felt a burning sensation in his throat, a desire to yell. The silence that followed felt deafening.

He stood up suddenly, turning away from the table, and made to leave.

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