frustrated - Story 51197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school smelled exactly the same: disinfectant and stale air. He felt a cold sweat prickle his skin. He was going to have to talk to Mr. Abernathy, his old history teacher. He remembered the withering looks he would receive and the way the man would pronounce his name with a specific tone of disappointment. His palms became clammy. The thought of reliving those memories made him want to turn and run.

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