frustrated - Story 51199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been looking forward to this evening. He had planned to go to the game, but now… The phone call had come, "Ms. Evans is worried about Olivia’s performance." He had to reschedule. He was going to have to miss the game. He sat on the edge of the bed and clenched his fists. The thought of hearing that woman's voice, of hearing the same criticisms he had heard years ago, filled him with a bitter resentment.

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