frustrated - Story 51974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Perfect timing," Mark muttered under his breath, hearing a knock at the door just as he was sitting down to his favorite show. Through the peephole, he saw it was Mrs. Davies from next door, clutching a gardening catalogue. "Oh, hello, Mark!" she chirped. "I was just wondering…" Mark already knew the words.

His muscles tensed. The television blared, and he longed to be swallowed up by the noise. The sunlight seemed to drill into his eyes.

He forced a smile, the muscles in his face protesting. He told her he would have to speak with his wife. He closed the door with a firm click, the sound like a gunshot in the silent hallway. He just wanted to watch his show.

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