frustrated - Story 51386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slumped against the wall, watching the stream of people pass by. He was late, again. He couldn't help it. The train had been delayed. He was already feeling a dull ache in his chest, a sensation he couldn’t quite identify.

He reached for his phone, and typed out a quick message. "On my way! Traffic is awful." He didn't want to explain why he was late; the excuses felt tedious. He watched another couple walk by. Then, a couple more. He saw his date, a few feet away, laughing. Laughing with someone else. His breath hitched in his throat. He should have taken a cab.

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