frustrated - Story 51766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank space, his eyes narrowing. The sun, once filtered by the branches, beat down unmercifully, baking the exposed earth. He felt a prickle of sweat on his brow. The silence was deafening, amplified by the absence of the bird calls he had always associated with this place. He balled his fists, the knuckles turning white. He turned away, his shoulders slumping, a sense of weary defeat washing over him. The wind whispered through the empty space, mocking his loss.

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