frustrated - Story 51935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips were bright, cheerful, and utterly unwelcome. He picked them up, his fingers brushing against the delicate petals. He crushed them almost unconsciously. Then he looked at his hands, disgusted.

He slammed the vase down so hard it almost tipped over. Who had sent them? He didn't understand the purpose. Why was this happening? Why couldn't they leave him be?

He grabbed his keys and wallet, and strode out the door, unable to breathe. He needed to clear his head, and he'd find a way to make sure this didn't happen again.

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