frustrated - Story 51060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She paced the length of her tiny apartment, the linoleum cold beneath her bare feet. The memory of the pawn shop, the ring glinting under the harsh fluorescent lights, replayed in her mind. Her pulse hammered in her ears. She knew this was a mistake. She should have listened to her gut. She stopped and stared at her reflection in the darkened window, a stranger staring back at her. The reflection didn't offer any solace. She suddenly felt a crushing weight on her chest.

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