frustrated - Story 51169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to get out of there. Now. He took a hasty gulp of his drink, his hand shaking slightly. The wedding was a blur of forced smiles and small talk, but the moment he saw Hannah, his ex, laughing with someone, a wave of coldness washed over him. He felt as though the oxygen had been sucked from the room.

He scanned the room for an exit. The crowd seemed to be closing in, suffocating him. He quickly made his way towards the doors.

His car keys were in his pocket. He reached for them and moved swiftly.

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