frustrated - Story 51178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan watched the construction worker, his jaw tight. It was a face he knew well. This was Blake, who'd told everyone he was a highly successful lawyer. Ethan felt his pulse quicken. He'd admired Blake, envied his supposed success, the way he spoke of the law and legal battles.

He watched Blake raise his hammer, the motion familiar yet completely alien. The hammer hit the wood and sent a shock through Ethan. He was a fool. A complete and utter fool. His own aspirations felt diminished by the revelation.

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