frustrated - Story 51079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grocery store felt stifling. Ava pushed the cart ahead, her movements jerky. She had developed an intensely close relationship with "SunshineSkies," sharing recipes, gardening tips, and life updates. The news that they were in the same city just made her feel…uneasy. Her skin prickled. She grabbed a carton of milk and gripped it tightly, the cold seeping into her palm, and the milk seemed to be at odds with her boiling blood. She needed to get out. Now.

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