frustrated - Story 51220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The music was awful! Terribly loud, terrible disco music!" David’s voice was sharp, a little shrill. Across the table, Michael’s face remained a mask of polite amusement.

"We had a wonderful time. Remember the slow dance? You even complimented my moves." Michael's tone was calm, almost soothing.

David ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He could still feel the throbbing headache, the overwhelming sensory overload. The sheer wrongness of it all made him feel nauseous. He wanted to shout, to scream, to make Michael *see* what he saw.

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