frustrated - Story 51340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He clenched his fists so tightly his knuckles turned white. The neon sign of "Taco Heaven" flickered weakly, a pathetic reminder of what would soon be lost. Daniel leaned against the building, the cool brick doing little to soothe his rising agitation. This place… this place was everything. The food, the atmosphere, the memories. He kicked at a small stone, sending it skittering across the pavement. He thought about the last time he would taste the deliciousness.

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