frustrated - Story 51448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk back from class felt endless. Each step seemed to weigh him down, the backpack straps digging into his shoulders. He could feel the familiar tightening in his chest, the dull ache behind his eyes. He’d found the journal open, lying on the bed, pages exposed. He stopped abruptly, his breath catching in his throat. He leaned against a tree, his shoulders slumped, feeling the rough bark against his back. He couldn't shake the feeling of being violated.

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