frustrated - Story 51628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basketball court seemed smaller than usual. Sam missed the easy layup, the ball bouncing off the rim. He’d been practicing all week. He was due to play an important game against a very strong team. He looked at his phone to check if his friend had replied. He noticed a notification he didn't want to see.

He pictured Coach Miller scrutinizing his every post, evaluating his attitude, his lifestyle. He'd shared videos of his friends, of himself having fun. Now, it felt like an invasion. His shoulders slumped. The game lost its luster.

He missed the next shot. And the one after that.

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