frustrated - Story 51127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No, no, no,” Amelia whispered, her voice cracking. She tugged at the collar of her blouse, as if it were choking her. The news had just broken: another delay. She was supposed to be in London for the final interview. The job. The dream. The culmination of years of hard work. Now, she felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar sting of impending tears. She blinked rapidly, determined to hold them back. She couldn’t break down now. She was so close.

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