frustrated - Story 51940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a strangled groan when he saw the orchids. The sender knew his taste. It was worse. He ran a hand through his hair and then just wanted to scream.

He slammed his fist on the kitchen counter. The flowers were taunting him. He did not know who. He did not know why. He had to stop this.

He grabbed his keys and his phone and he stormed out the door. The sound of the door slamming echoed down the hall.

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