frustrated - Story 51516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I don't understand," Emily muttered, her voice barely audible. Coach Williams watched her, feeling a cold dread creep into his bones. The late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the empty field. He shifted from foot to foot, the silence between them amplifying the tension.

He felt a sudden ache behind his eyes, a familiar warning signal. The injustice of it all, the politics that had forced his hand, felt like a physical blow. He stared at her, her eyes glistening.

He longed to run, to escape this scene. But he couldn't. He was supposed to be the pillar of strength, the one who provided leadership. This was the moment where he failed the most.

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