frustrated - Story 51054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Twenty dollars, lady,” the pawnbroker repeated, his voice devoid of emotion. Sarah slammed her fist on the counter. The cheap wood of the surface felt rough and unpleasant. She’d been saving for weeks, sacrificing her own needs for this. Tears pricked at her eyes, but she blinked them back, refusing to let them fall. The air in the shop felt thick, suffocating. She couldn't believe this was happening. She took another look at the ring. It gleamed, a cold and mocking reminder of the past. The knot in her stomach tightened. She hated this.

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