frustrated - Story 51856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe this," muttered Mark, kicking a pebble across the empty driveway. His mother, the woman who meticulously planned every aspect of her life, wanted to... learn to surf? He had spent the last two weeks with lawyers and real estate agents.

He crumpled the bucket list in his fist. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He just wanted to get this over with. He wanted it all to be easy. He unlocked his car, the keys rattling in his trembling hand.

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