frustrated - Story 51796 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of the living room, his bare feet slapping against the polished hardwood floor. John stopped, glaring at the portraits on the wall of the previous owners, each one a smug reminder of the past. He'd painstakingly stripped the wallpaper, chosen the perfect fabrics, but now the elegant facade felt tainted. The neighborhood kids whispered. The local paper called. The details of the crime replayed in his head, a sickening loop. He wanted to scream.

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