frustrated - Story 51839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over Robert. He felt a sharp, stabbing sensation in his gut. He was staring at the printout, his knuckles white. So many sacrifices, so many compromises, and all this time… this. He wanted to shout. He wanted to scream.

He found Susan in the backyard, tending to her precious roses. "Why didn't you share this with me?" he asked, the words barely a breath.

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