frustrated - Story 51076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slammed the car door with excessive force, the sound echoing in the empty parking lot. He had just finished a particularly heated online debate with "PhilosopherKing," a person he’d argued with for hours. All that time wasted debating, dissecting, and trying to understand their opposing viewpoints. Now he knows that PhilosopherKing lived in the same city. He ran a hand through his hair, the bristles feeling like sandpaper against his scalp. Why? He wanted an escape, a sense of privacy, and this revelation has eliminated it.

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