frustrated - Story 51632 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ripped open the envelope, the paper tearing raggedly. His jaw clenched as he read the childish scrawl. The letter was a plea to his father, begging for understanding, for a simple acknowledgment of his dreams. He balled the paper in his fist, his knuckles white. The old grievances, sharp and fresh, stung. He could feel the pulse hammering in his temples, the unwelcome heat climbing his neck. He wished he could just forget. He wished it all never happened.

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