frustrated - Story 51056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t this a fine mess,” Amelia muttered under her breath, staring at the ring. Her palms were damp, and her fingers felt clumsy. She hadn’t expected this. She thought this would be simple. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, like someone had lit a fire there. The pawnbroker’s smug expression just made it worse. She had to get it, and she had to get it now. She opened her purse, her hands shaking slightly as she counted out her remaining cash. The total fell short.

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