frustrated - Story 51334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup wobbled precariously in David's grasp, threatening to spill its contents. He just stared at the news report flashing across the diner's television screen. "The Daily Grind," his escape, his haven, was shutting its doors. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes. He’d practically lived in that cafe for years, nursing lattes, writing, reading, watching the world go by. He took a shaky breath, the aroma of burnt coffee suddenly acrid.

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