frustrated - Story 51166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just great," I muttered under my breath, watching as Ethan walked right toward me. He didn’t seem to notice me at first, but then his eyes widened in surprise and he stopped. I felt a flush creeping up my neck. I should have guessed that we’d both be here. The world was so very small.

My hands clenched into fists at my sides. He smiled, that charming, infuriating smile that had always worked on me before. I took a step back, and my heel clipped the edge of the patio's brickwork.

“How are you, Emily?” he asked, his voice calm. I could not reciprocate. I could only manage a curt, "Fine."

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