frustrated - Story 51938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carnations, his least favourite flower, sat on the small table in the hallway. They smelled like cheap perfume, a smell that made him feel sick. He glared at them, his fists clenched.

Who was doing this? Why? He paced back and forth in the living room, a restless energy coursing through him. He checked his phone again, but there were no new messages. It was as he had feared.

He threw himself onto the couch. He wanted to sleep for a year and not wake up. He wanted this to just go away.

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