frustrated - Story 51906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My hands fisted at my sides, nails digging into my palms. I read the email again, as if the words would magically change. They didn’t. The campus bookstore, usually bustling with students, now seemed deserted, the silence amplifying the thrumming in my ears. I felt a knot tighten in my stomach, a cold, hard stone. My future, once a clear path, now fragmented into a thousand sharp, jagged pieces. I just wanted to disappear, to vanish.

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