frustrated - Story 51874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his small apartment, the worn wooden floorboards creaking under his weight. Liam’s digital art, his deeply personal explorations of identity, were now being sold as NFTs, without his consent, by some faceless corporation. Sweat beaded on his forehead, a cold sheen against his skin. He stopped pacing, running a hand through his already messy hair. He felt a deep, gnawing unease, a feeling that clawed at the edges of his sanity.

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