frustrated - Story 51963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Mark practically snarled the word, his voice tight. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the gesture more frantic than calming. The list, unearthed from the back of Chloe’s wardrobe, was a slap in the face. "Go skydiving." "Run a marathon." "Travel to Bali." He’d thought they were a team, a unit. He imagined them as a team of two that helped the other with their dreams, not just one side.

He tossed the list onto the bed, the paper fluttering uselessly. He picked up his phone, scrolling through his Instagram feed, seeing couples doing these things. He slammed his phone down. His jaw clenched, muscles taut. What was wrong with *him*?

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