frustrated - Story 51550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Henry stared at the computer screen, the bright light reflecting in his wide eyes. His son's hidden online gaming profile and the associated discord conversations were showing him a completely different person. A person he didn't know at all, and had no control over. He felt an icy grip around his chest, squeezing the breath from him.

He pushed his chair back from the desk, the wheels squeaking on the linoleum. He got up and began to pace, his steps quick and restless. He crossed his arms, rubbing them to try and regain some warmth.

"Just… unbelievable," he repeated, shaking his head.

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