frustrated - Story 51219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of the living room, his hands stuffed in his pockets. “We climbed a tree! A huge oak, right by the river! And you were terrified!” Sarah, curled up on the sofa, didn’t even look up from her book.

“No, we built a sandcastle. And you got stung by a bee. Remember?” Her voice was level, dismissive.

He stopped pacing, his shoulders slumped. A wave of exhaustion washed over him. The tree, the river, the view… it was all so clear in his mind. He felt a deep unease, a sense of being completely adrift. It was as if he was losing his grip on reality.

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