frustrated - Story 51849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, the music a loud and unwanted intruder. Jake gritted his teeth, his jaw aching. He could feel a vein throbbing in his forehead. He grabbed his phone, his thumb hovering over the dial pad. He debated, but could not bring himself to make the call. His hands were shaking slightly as he set the phone back down. He grabbed a pillow and buried his face in it, trying to shut out the sound.

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