frustrated - Story 51144 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just…gone," Maya muttered, the word a bitter taste on her tongue. Her knuckles were white as she gripped the steering wheel, staring at the closed gates of the studio. Her mentor, Isabelle, was supposed to be here, directing their showcase, but a simple text message the previous evening had shattered that plan. "Taking some time." That was all. Now, the responsibility, the pressure, everything rested squarely on her shoulders. Her chest felt constricted, her breath shallow. She pounded her fist on the steering wheel, the metal of the car cold against her skin.

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