frustrated - Story 51258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What a joke,” David muttered, the words escaping his lips like a hiss. He’d carefully crafted his argument; his years of study, his countless revisions - all for nothing. The article was a shining example of his work, but now it belonged to “Ms. Beatrice Bloom.”

He balled up the printed copy, tossing it into the trash. The paper crinkled loudly. He sat back in his chair, feeling utterly depleted, like all his energy had been siphoned away. He felt empty.

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