frustrated - Story 51085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant clang of metal against metal made Emily jump, her coffee sloshing over the rim of the mug. She could feel a throbbing in her temples, a dull ache that intensified with each strike. She'd tried to relax all morning, to enjoy a lazy Sunday, but the noise...

She slammed the mug down on the counter. The image of the fence, a visual barrier, felt oppressive, and the thought of her peaceful back yard being turned into something more like a prison yard made her want to scream. She let out a long sigh, pressing her palms against her eyes, as if to physically stop the noise.

She began to pace, back and forth, unable to settle.

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