frustrated - Story 51078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blinking cursor, the blank document a mirror of his own mental state. He had invested countless hours talking to "CodingGuru," the supposed expert who had helped him learn how to code. He thought CodingGuru was his ticket to success. His cheeks flushed crimson as he considered all the questions he had asked. Now, the news: they live in the same city. "What a waste," he muttered under his breath, leaning back in his chair. He hated this, every bit of 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