frustrated - Story 51058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the pawn shop felt thick with the smell of old metal and forgotten hopes. Emily stood frozen, her breath catching in her throat. She had found it. The ring. But the price… The sharp intake of breath she took in was almost comical. The shop owner’s gaze, cool and appraising, added to her discomfort. This was all her fault. She should have been more careful. She felt a familiar weight settle on her shoulders, heavy and demanding.

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