frustrated - Story 51758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter landed with a soft thud on the worn wooden table. Liam stared at it, his face devoid of expression. His fingers, stained with ink, clenched into fists. He leaned back in his chair, the wood groaning under his weight. The silence in the small room was oppressive. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and impatient. He felt a slow burn in his stomach. He wanted to tear it apart, to rip it to shreds, to obliterate any memory that it represented.

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