frustrated - Story 51908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria, usually filled with the chatter of students, was unnervingly quiet. Michael stabbed at his tasteless pizza with a fork, the action lacking all energy. He felt as if the air was thick, difficult to breathe. He stared at the email on his phone, the words blurring before his eyes. He slowly pushed his food away from him, his appetite completely gone. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words caught in his throat, replaced by a hollow ache.

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