frustrated - Story 51517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room stank of stale sweat and shattered dreams. Coach Peterson could barely breathe in the cramped space. He found himself pacing. He felt a surge of adrenaline, and a sudden, irresistible urge to break something.

He winced, remembering the look on Kevin’s face. Kevin had been the heart of the team, the glue that held them together. The higher ups hadn't even given a single damn about his effort.

He wanted to resign, to walk away and let someone else deal with the mess. He stopped and took a deep breath, as the metallic tang of something akin to rage swirled in his stomach. He sighed heavily, knowing he couldn't. He had other responsibilities to consider.

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