frustrated - Story 51584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. He was backstage, trying to remain composed. His own band was opening for the headliner, a rising star who was supposedly covering "City Lights," his most popular song. He bit his lip, tasting the metallic tang of fear. The moment the first notes of his song echoed through the hall, a wave of sickness washed over him. The star had taken his song, and twisted it, changed it, and cheapened it. He felt his hands begin to tremble. He balled them into fists.

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