frustrated - Story 51338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Impossible,” Ethan whispered, his voice barely audible. He reread the notice taped to the bakery window, his stomach churning. "Sweet Surrender," his sanctuary, closing. The smell of freshly baked bread, the perfectly crafted croissants, the friendly banter with the baker... all gone. He leaned against the cool glass, feeling a wave of nausea. He took a deep, ragged breath. He’d have to find another place, another routine, but nothing would ever be quite the same.

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