frustrated - Story 51264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basketball bounced mockingly on the blacktop court, a rhythmic thud that grated on Ben's nerves. He stood, frozen, his gaze fixed on the triumphant faces of the chosen few. Heat prickled his skin, and his palms began to sweat. He balled his fists, the knuckles white against his skin. Years of grueling practice, countless missed meals, the constant pressure… all for naught. He turned away, his shoulders slumped, the weight of the rejection pressing down on him.

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