frustrated - Story 51630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band practice felt off-key. The music, usually a source of joy for David, now grated on his ears. He wasn't playing his best. He looked at his phone, his heart pounding. The Instagram notification confirmed his suspicions: Mr. Reynolds, the music teacher, had started following him.

David had shared videos of his band, their rehearsals, their goofy antics. He imagined Mr. Reynolds analyzing his skills, his technique. Every off-note, every missed cue, felt like a public failure.

He slammed his drumsticks onto his snare drum, the sound echoing through the practice room. He wanted to stop. He wanted to quit. He felt his face heat up.

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