frustrated - Story 51617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The venue was already filling up. The clinking of glasses, the murmur of conversation, amplified the anxiety bubbling inside him. He hadn't touched the speech since the first draft. He kept telling himself he would get to it. He was supposed to be happy for his mother. Yet the thought of standing up there, of having to articulate his feelings, made his stomach clench. He picked at a stray thread on his jacket. He needed to get away, to breathe.

He moved toward the nearest exit.

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