frustrated - Story 51590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The packed bar pulsed with energy. He was trying to enjoy the evening. Suddenly, the house band launched into "Midnight Bloom," his most personal composition. The lead singer was attempting to sing it, but his voice was completely wrong for the song. He felt a wave of nausea. He took a long swig of his beer. He wanted to shout, to stop them, to get out of there. He felt a pressure building in his chest. He stood up abruptly and pushed his way through the crowd, escaping the sound of his own song's destruction.

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