frustrated - Story 51062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ripped the letter in half, then again, and again, until the pieces were confetti. Across the cracked linoleum floor, the fragments of his hopes lay scattered. A knot tightened in his stomach, a physical manifestation of the fury bubbling inside. He wanted to scream, to shatter something. He paced the cramped living room, back and forth, the worn rug offering no solace. His jaw clenched, muscles working overtime. "Unbelievable," he muttered under his breath, the word laced with acid.

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