frustrated - Story 51536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a cold shiver despite the warm afternoon sun beating down on him. He sat on the bench, staring blankly at the bustling campus around him. They'd made a mistake, a big one. He’d received the email detailing the error. The scholarship was for someone else. He had been so sure of his future, the path he had so carefully constructed. Now, it was crumbling around him. He felt hollow, as if someone had punched him in the stomach. He just wanted to disappear.

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