frustrated - Story 51074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with chatter, but Leo barely registered the noise. He stared at the email on his phone, the words blurring before his eyes. "ArtisticSoul99," his online mentor and the person who had inspired him to pursue his passion for painting, lived right here, in this very city? He'd spent weeks agonizing over his latest piece, desperate for their approval, their critiques that always felt so constructive, so…distant. He slumped in his chair, a sudden weariness washing over him. He felt as if the air was thick, suffocating.

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