frustrated - Story 51900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock on the desk glared back at him, mocking his wasted effort. A 'C-'. The audacity of it! He reread the professor's comments, each criticism a fresh barb. He slammed his fist on the table, the sound a brief release of pent-up energy. His breathing became shallow, rapid, as a wave of feeling threatened to overwhelm him. He wanted to obliterate the paper, to erase the proof of his perceived failure, to prove that the grade was a mistake.

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