frustrated - Story 51073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window, mirroring the tempest brewing inside Amelia. She tapped her pen relentlessly against her desk, the rhythmic tapping a counterpoint to the racing thoughts in her head. Months of late-night talks with "StarGazer88," sharing dreams and anxieties, had finally culminated in a meet-up. But finding out they were just a bus ride away from her? It felt…wrong. Like her carefully curated online persona was about to be exposed under the harsh glare of reality. A hot flush crept up her neck, and she picked at a loose thread on her sweater.

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