frustrated - Story 51540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet on his laptop, his eyes blurring with tears he refused to let fall. A clerical error. The words seemed to mock him. The scholarship was given to the wrong person, and it wasn't him. He slammed his fist down on the desk, the impact jolting his arm. He took a shaky breath, trying to steady himself, to regain some control. The feeling of being completely and utterly undone was overwhelming. He felt utterly desolate.

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