frustrated - Story 51626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the new meme I made?" Jake asked, grinning at his friend across the lunch table. The usual excitement he felt for his social media presence was now gone. He stared at the half-eaten sandwich in his hand, unable to stomach another bite. He knew, he just *knew*, that his teacher, Mr. Thompson, had followed him on Instagram.

He’d spent hours crafting his online persona, making sure it was perfect. He pictured Mr. Thompson, going through his photos, his comments, the jokes. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He threw the sandwich in the trash. The thought of facing Mr. Thompson in class felt unbearable.

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