frustrated - Story 51428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one," John muttered, tossing the invitation into the fireplace. It landed amongst the unburnt logs. He grabbed the lighter and flicked it open. Burning it felt like the only appropriate response. His gaze dropped to the floor and he kicked at the baseboard, the sound echoing.

His life felt stuck, a rut he couldn’t climb out of. He’d made promises, had dreams. Now, he was just... here. The slow burn of the paper mirrored the slow burn of resentment in his gut. A dull ache settled in his chest, a constant reminder of the gap between what was and what could have been.

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