frustrated - Story 51072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at a discarded soda can on the sidewalk, sending it skittering across the cracked pavement. Liam had been looking forward to a quiet evening of online gaming with "ShadowWolf77," the only person who understood his bizarre sense of humor. He'd poured hours into their shared virtual world, building castles and slaying dragons, all fueled by inside jokes and late-night chats. Now, the revelation that ShadowWolf lived just a few blocks away… it was too much. The thought of potentially running into them made his shoulders slump.

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