frustrated - Story 51744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his bedroom window, Leo watched the chain saw whine to life. Another crew. Another delay. They’d been battling the aftermath of the storm for days, each setback pushing back the deadline for the community fundraiser. He threw himself back onto the bed, arms splayed, the tight feeling in his chest spreading. His mind raced, imagining the disappointed faces, the wasted effort.

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