frustrated - Story 51937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, mixed arrangement sat on the kitchen table, a splash of colour against the dull beige walls. He stared at it, his shoulders slumping. He hadn't asked for this. He didn’t want it.

He went to the fridge, yanked open the door, and stared blankly at the contents. He wasn’t hungry. He wasn’t anything. He grabbed a beer, popped the top, and took a long, slow drink.

He tossed the bottle in the trash and then stormed out the back door, slamming it behind him. He needed to be alone. He needed to think.

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