frustrated - Story 51064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Leo's chest was suffocating. He leaned back in his chair, the cheap plastic creaking in protest. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, pulling at the roots. His gaze fixed on the posters plastered on his walls, reminders of the future he had dreamed of. Now, those dreams felt distant, unattainable. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes, a precursor to a headache that he knew would be 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