frustrated - Story 51717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news settled in the pit of Liam's stomach like a lead weight. He walked to the window, staring out at the vibrant city life below, but saw nothing. His vision blurred, and the sounds of the street seemed distant, muted. He felt his hands begin to tremble.

He turned away from the window, and started pacing, his footsteps rapid and restless on the worn wooden floor. He needed to do something, anything. He ran a hand through his already messy hair. He felt trapped.

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