frustrated - Story 51827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pottery wheel spun slowly, a rhythm he usually found soothing. Not today. He slumped against the stool, his shoulders slumped. He’d spent countless hours perfecting this ceramic sculpture, a complex interpretation of ancient mythology. Now, the project felt cursed.

He was notified about the competition. He saw the other sculptor's portfolio, with its identical subject, the same techniques. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. Every minute detail felt copied. How could this have happened?

He got up and walked over to the window, staring out at the garden. The sunshine felt mocking. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

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