frustrated - Story 51270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unread text messages on her phone felt unbearable to Daniel. Each notification was a reminder of the team, the friendships, the shared triumphs he would not be a part of. He threw the phone onto his bed, the sound echoing in the quiet room. He walked over to the window, staring out at the expansive park, feeling completely disconnected from the world. A deep, gnawing hollowness settled in his stomach, a feeling that threatened to consume him whole.

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