frustrated - Story 51922 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of his cramped apartment, his shadow stretching and shrinking on the wall with each turn. The diagnosis felt like a joke. A cruel, elaborate prank played by the universe. He raked a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. He was supposed to be at the game, celebrating with his friends. Instead, he was trapped in this absurd reality where his body was rebelling against him.

“Damn it!” He kicked the worn sofa, the impact sending a jolt of pain up his leg. He hated this. He hated everything.

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