frustrated - Story 51182 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the living room, the Persian rug doing nothing to quiet his footsteps. The air was thick with unspoken accusations. He’d found the phone tucked away in the glove compartment, hidden under a crumpled map. Mark had always been meticulous; this felt deliberate.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The calls, the disappearing acts, the closed door in the home office – it all clicked. He could feel a pressure building behind his eyes, a dull ache throbbing in his temples. How could he have been so blind?

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