frustrated - Story 51542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael drummed his fingers on the kitchen table, the rhythmic tapping a counterpoint to the relentless drip of the leaky faucet. He'd found the hidden Instagram account yesterday, meticulously curated with photos of parties, friends he’d never seen, and a life that seemed utterly alien to his daughter's quiet, book-filled existence.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a dull ache that seemed to spread to his shoulders. He scrubbed at his eyes, the image of her smiling, carefree face in those photos seared into his memory. Everything he knew, everything he thought he understood...was it all a lie?

"Just…unbelievable," he mumbled, the word barely a whisper. He rose from the table, his movements stiff and deliberate. He needed air, needed to be away from this house, this situation, this... deception.

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