frustrated - Story 51918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his teeth grinding. The casual suggestion, delivered with a smile, was nothing short of an insult. The man wanted him to cut down the tree, *his* tree, the one that had been there longer than both of them.

He took a long swallow of his coffee, the bitter liquid doing little to soothe the building pressure in his chest. He was tired of this. Tired of all of it.

He slammed his mug down on the counter. The sound echoed in the quiet kitchen. He had a meeting to prepare for, the car needed washing, and now this. A cold wave rolled over him.

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