frustrated - Story 51154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. The highway stretched before him, an endless expanse of gray asphalt. He flipped on the radio, searching for a song, any song, to distract him. Nothing. The news was just as bad. The job, the one he’d pinned so many hopes on, was now a distant, unattainable goal. He slammed his fist against the dashboard, letting out a frustrated groan. He needed to get out of the car. He needed to *move*.

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