frustrated - Story 51128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale smell of coffee and burnt popcorn filled the air, mingling with the scent of disinfectant and anxiety. Richard tapped his foot impatiently. The rhythmic thumping became a steady beat against the floor. His fingers were itching to be doing something. He’d been looking forward to this trip to see his son in the championship game, for months. He had carefully planned everything, but it was all falling apart. He let out a harsh laugh, a sound that quickly dissolved into silence.

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