frustrated - Story 51920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at a loose stone on the path, sending it skittering across the lawn. The neighbor's request, couched in such reasonable terms, still felt like a personal attack. They had no idea the significance of that tree.

He felt a familiar tightening in his stomach. He wasn't in the mood to be reasonable. He wasn't in the mood for *anything*.

He went inside and slammed the door behind him. The house felt too small, the walls closing in. He wanted to shatter something, to destroy the feeling. He just 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