frustrated - Story 51638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David crumpled the letter in his fist, the paper crackling like dry leaves. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the prickle of stubble. The words, addressed to his deceased wife, were a testament to his adolescent stubbornness and the wounds it had inflicted. The memories, sharp and painful, swirled. He wished he could go back, do it all differently. The regret felt like a lead weight in his gut.

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