frustrated - Story 51059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it standing on end. The shop owner's words replayed in his head, each syllable a jab. He was out of options. His stomach felt like it was twisting into a hard knot. He kicked the curb, the sound loud in the quiet street. He hated this feeling, this sense of helplessness. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. He didn’t know what to do. The thought of going home, empty-handed, was unbearable.

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