frustrated - Story 51858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate sale was tomorrow. James felt a knot tighten in his chest. Everything had to go. He picked up the list from his father's desk, its paper fragile to the touch. It seemed impossible. "Go to a music festival." "Learn to play the guitar."

His father had always been reserved, content with his routine. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to throw it all away. He pushed the list, hard, across the table, knocking over a stack of bills.

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