frustrated - Story 51175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic tang of blood filled Marco’s mouth as he stared at the flyer. "Personal Trainer - Fitness Guru." It was a bold claim for a man who, yesterday, had been struggling to lift a box of groceries at the supermarket. James, his "fitness guru" friend, the one always offering unsolicited advice and showing off his "muscles," was a liar.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The pounding in his temples was relentless. He’d signed up for a training package, of course. He’d even spent a small fortune on the "nutritional supplements" James had recommended. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

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