frustrated - Story 51589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was stuck in traffic, fuming. Then, the opening chords of "Shadow Dance" filled the air. It was a local band, butchering his melody. He slammed his hand on the steering wheel. The singer's voice was weak, the tempo was wrong, the passion nonexistent. He wanted to escape, to be anywhere but here. He turned the radio off, but the memory of the atrocity lingered. He needed to get out of the car. He needed to *move*.

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