frustrated - Story 51998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in John's apartment felt stale. He swiped at his brow, which was suddenly beaded with sweat. "Seriously?" he muttered, his voice barely a whisper. The essay, his private thoughts, was now a blueprint for other applicants. He wanted to shout.

He felt his teeth clench, a dull ache spreading across his jaw. He wanted to rip the computer from the wall, to crush it underfoot. He felt the blood pounding in his ears. How had they chosen *his* essay? He felt betrayed, violated. He sank onto the couch, feeling utterly and completely emptied.

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