frustrated - Story 51426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation, the script swimming before his eyes. It was a beautiful invitation, thick paper, elegant font. He crumpled it in his hand, the smooth surface now a twisted mess. His mouth twisted into a snarl. What did they want from him? To show off their curated lives while he... he was still stuck, still trying to get by.

He threw the paper across the room, it hitting the wall and falling softly to the ground. A sigh escaped him, a sound of bitter resignation. He felt the familiar weight pressing down on him, the feeling of being perpetually behind, of never quite measuring 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