frustrated - Story 51266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, that's… that's not right," Mark muttered, pacing back and forth in his bedroom. His fingers tangled in his hair, pulling at the strands. The rejection letter lay crumpled on his desk, a stark reminder of his failure. He ran his hand across his forehead, attempting to quell the rising tide of heat. He kicked a discarded soccer ball across the room, watching it collide with the wall. The impact did little to soothe the rage that simmered beneath the surface.

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