frustrated - Story 51795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again, the incessant chirp slicing through the quiet afternoon. Michael ignored it, grabbing the gardening shears. He attacked the overgrown rose bushes with a vengeance, hacking and slashing at the thorny stems. He needed something to channel his mounting anxiety, his mounting sense of dread. The letter arrived, the official notification. The house, his haven, had been the site of something terrible. His dream home was no more.

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