frustrated - Story 51055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The engine of the train roared as it began to move. David gripped the worn seat cushion so tightly his knuckles were white. He'd been late already. The missed bus had already set him back, and now this. A dull throb pulsed behind his temples. This whole search felt like a cruel joke. He’d meticulously planned everything, and still, this… this. He wanted to shout, to scream, to lash out. He closed his eyes, took a ragged breath, and tried to gather himself.

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