frustrated - Story 51037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her chest felt tight, constricted. The interview on television, the one promoting "Elizabeth Thorne: The Unbreakable Spirit," played on loop in her mind. The interviewer's probing questions, the saccharine smiles, the completely fabricated narratives about her supposed hardships—all of it felt suffocating. Elizabeth, sitting at her desk, found herself unable to breathe.

She gripped the remote control so hard, it creaked in her hand. The image of the author, dressed in elegant clothes, smiling for the camera, caused a sharp wave of anger to wash over her.

She smashed the remote on the desk. Its plastic parts scattered like shrapnel.

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