frustrated - Story 51048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kids wouldn't nap. The woman could feel the tension in her shoulders. She wanted to yell. The noise. The constant noise. It was driving her insane. She had lost her patience long ago.

She sighed, a frustrated, defeated sound. She needed a break. She knew that there was no way she could ask them to be quiet. She had to do something.

She stood up. Time for a drive, she thought. She grabbed her purse, the urgency in her movements mirroring the anxiety brewing inside of her. She would just take them somewhere. Anywhere.

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