frustrated - Story 51966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge, taking a long, hard swig, the cold liquid doing little to soothe the heat that bloomed in his chest. “See the Grand Canyon.” “Learn to surf.” “Start a business.” He’d thought he knew everything about her. Now this. He tossed the damp paper on the counter. The words seemed to jump off the page, mocking him. He paced the kitchen, unable to sit still.

He grabbed his keys and slammed the door behind him, leaving the list on the counter. The familiar slam of the door echoed through the house.

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