frustrated - Story 51548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Tom paced the length of his living room, his footsteps echoing on the hardwood floor. He had always tried to be the "cool dad," the one his daughter could confide in. The discovery of a hidden Facebook account, filled with gossip and veiled complaints about their family, had shattered that illusion.

He stopped, pressing his palms against his temples. A headache bloomed behind his eyes. He felt a surge of heat in his chest, making him feel like he couldn’t breathe.

"This is not how it’s supposed to be," he mumbled, his voice tight.

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