frustrated - Story 51587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled along the highway. A tinny version of "Lost and Found" was coming from someone's headphones. He stared out the window, the passing scenery a blur. The singer's voice was flat, lifeless, utterly devoid of the emotion he’d invested in the song. His hands clenched into fists. He wanted to snatch the headphones off the stranger, scream at them to stop. He felt a deep ache in his chest.

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