frustrated - Story 51247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world swam around Liam. He blinked rapidly, trying to clear his vision. The paperwork was a jumbled mess of unfamiliar names and ailments. They were treating him for a condition he didn't have! The doctor, bless his heart, seemed apologetic, but the damage was done. He felt an overwhelming urge to flee, to escape this absurd reality. He pushed back from the chair, the sudden movement nearly throwing him off balance. He needed air, needed to be anywhere but there.

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