frustrated - Story 51157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small apartment felt suffocating. The air hung thick and heavy, reflecting the mood. She threw the crumpled rejection letter onto the floor, the paper landing with a soft, pathetic thud. She’d spent weeks preparing, revising, tweaking her resume. For what? Her best friend, Chloe, had gotten the job. She wanted to be happy for her, but the wave of disappointment was too overwhelming. She paced the small living room, unable to sit still. Her hands fidgeted with the hem of her shirt.

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