frustrated - Story 51899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't get it," Ben mumbled, staring at the 'D' plastered on his essay. He'd spent days agonizing over every sentence, double-checking his sources, and revising his arguments. He'd even sought help from the writing center. Now, it felt like all that work had been in vain. A wave of heat washed over him, and his cheeks flushed. He suddenly felt a strong desire to escape, to be anywhere but here, to avoid the judgement, and the disappointment of his performance.

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