frustrated - Story 51784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged, and Leo almost jumped out of his chair. He clicked on it, bracing himself. "New Listing Alert: 14 Willow Creek Lane." The old house, now presented as "a delightful starter home," glared back at him. He felt his face flush. He needed to get out of this room. The walls seemed to be closing in. He shoved the chair back and stumbled towards the door, muttering under his breath, "That's not right… not right at all."

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