frustrated - Story 51394 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the cramped confines of his apartment, the floorboards groaning in protest with each heavy footfall. He needed to find some kind of release, something to pull him away from the sheer weight of expectations pressing down on him. A looming deadline at work, a dwindling savings account.

He threw himself onto the worn sofa, grabbing the book from the coffee table. He'd found it in a bin, a hardback copy of "Moby Dick." He needed to be submerged in something other than his troubles.

He thumbed through the pages. As he did, something slipped out. A small, crumpled note, yellowed with age, landed in his lap. He frowned and picked it up.

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