frustrated - Story 51020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner party, meant to be a celebration, had turned into a minefield. Her husband, Richard, had just told them that he was considering joining the Baha'i faith. His words were calm, serene, and completely at odds with the turmoil inside her.

She gripped her wine glass, her knuckles white. The light of the chandelier seemed to be magnified and intensified, and she couldn't bring herself to meet anyone's eyes. The carefully crafted conversation, the laughter, everything seemed to be tainted.

She felt a burning sensation in her chest. She excused herself from the table, a wave of nausea washing over her. She stumbled to the powder room, the cool tile floor offering a small comfort. She wanted to understand, but she found herself unable to accept, unable to process, and it was crushing.

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