frustrated - Story 51259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of icy dread washed over him. The headline screamed at him: "By Professor Eleanor Finch." He felt a bitter taste in his mouth. All those late nights, the countless hours of researching - it was gone.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging on the strands, as if trying to rip the image of the title from his brain. His vision swam. He needed to get away, to escape the suffocating feeling. He grabbed his coat, heading out into the biting cold.

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