frustrated - Story 51195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're telling me you can't even get your son to do his homework?" Mr. Harrison asked, the question delivered with the same raised eyebrow and exasperated tone that he’d used on *me* all those years ago. David gritted his teeth, his jaw aching. He wanted to shout back, wanted to defend his son, wanted to be anywhere but here. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee the room, to escape the suffocating familiarity of the situation. He gripped the edge of the desk so tightly, his nails dug half moons into the wood.

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