frustrated - Story 51070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben like a punch to the gut. He dropped his phone onto the worn, wooden table. The sound of the thud seemed incredibly loud in the otherwise quiet room. His face flushed with heat. His palms began to sweat. He abruptly stood up, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He started to pace in his small room, unable to stand still. He needed to do something, anything, to release this pressure.

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