frustrated - Story 51859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the living room. Liam stared at the bucket list. His father, a man of stoicism and practicality, had wanted to learn to paint. The audacity of it all.

"Visit Paris," it said in shaky penmanship. He tossed the list onto the floor. He needed to get everything packed, all the paperwork done. He kicked the list across the floor. He needed to be strong, to be practical. He wanted to be anywhere else.

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