frustrated - Story 51686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the chessboard, the pieces reflecting the harsh glare of the overhead light. It was his father's set, passed down to him. Now, his son, Samuel, dominated the board. Every strategy, every opening, had been meticulously studied. He rarely won. He couldn’t even get a turn. The once familiar thrill of the game had turned sour. The joy of the challenge had evaporated. He felt a pressure building in his temples. He just wanted to feel the thrill again, the victory.

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