frustrated - Story 51414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car wouldn't start. Again. Liam slammed his fist against the dashboard, the impact jarring through his arm. He was already late for his sister's birthday, and the pressure in his chest felt like a vise. He kicked the tires, the metal stinging his toe. As he walked around the car, muttering curses under his breath, something caught his eye – a wallet, lying on the cracked pavement.

He picked it up, his breath quickening. The contents of the wallet, displayed like a slap in the face. A generous pile of money. His eyes flitted between the wallet and the dead car. He closed the car door with a snap. The silence was deafening.

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