frustrated - Story 51416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d lost the lottery ticket. Again. Mark swore under his breath, his shoulders slumping as he scanned the littered pavement. He should have won; he needed to win. The weight of his failed dreams was heavy. Then, his foot nudged something. A wallet, lying open, its contents spilling onto the ground.

The sheer volume of cash took his breath away. His hands shook as he scooped up the bills. He could solve all his problems, right here, right now. He closed his eyes, his heart drumming against his ribs, and imagined how he could use this. Mark’s head was spinning.

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