frustrated - Story 51488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a low-level tension. Liam ran a hand through his hair, scattering dust and debris from the attic. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He had always been the practical one, the pragmatist. But right now, his rationality felt useless.

He pulled a box of old toys from the back corner, and found a toy car he remembered playing with as a boy. The red paint was chipped. He tossed the car onto the floor with a clatter. It didn't matter now.

The demolition crew would be here soon. He felt trapped. He wanted to be anywhere but here.

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