frustrated - Story 51125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to be closing in around Chloe. The air thickened with unspoken annoyance, pressing down on her. She crumpled the boarding pass in her hand, the paper twisting into a tight ball of uselessness. She was supposed to be at her grandmother’s bedside. The doctors had warned, but she’d still hoped. Now? She felt a cold, leaden weight settle in her chest. She pushed herself up from the hard chair, her legs feeling shaky, and started walking in circles, a restless, caged animal.

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