frustrated - Story 51756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the handwriting, so familiar, yet so foreign. John crumpled the letter in his fist, its surface cracking and splitting. The muscles in his shoulders tightened. All this time he had carried the weight, silently, stubbornly. He tossed the mangled paper aside. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken accusations. He reached for his phone, his hand trembling slightly. Then, he stopped. He slammed the phone down, the plastic casing vibrating on the table.

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