frustrated - Story 51989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat at the kitchen table, the letter a cold weight in his hand. He tapped the table with his fingers, the rhythmic drumming growing faster and faster. He felt as though the world was closing in.

He glanced around the apartment. He could feel it squeezing the air out of his lungs. He had to breathe. He felt like he wanted to break something.

He stood abruptly, pacing the small space. He had to do something, anything. He went back to the fridge and opened it, just to close it again.

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