frustrated - Story 51489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around him, carrying with it the metallic tang of the construction site. Michael stood on the hill overlooking the property, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. The back of his neck prickled.

He remembered the endless summer days spent in the backyard, chasing fireflies, building forts. Now, the space was marked with stakes and surveyor's flags. His throat felt dry, his mouth bitter.

He wanted to scream at the empty blue sky. He did not know how to stop the feeling.

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