frustrated - Story 51538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call ended abruptly, the line going dead. Michael threw his phone across the room. It clattered against the wall, falling to the floor. The scholarship. Gone. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess. His carefully laid plans, ruined. He felt a potent ache in his jaw. The anger was building inside him, a simmering rage that threatened to boil over. He didn't want to talk to anyone, see anyone. He wanted to scream.

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