frustrated - Story 51176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another wine tasting?" Emily asked, her voice laced with acid. "That's lovely." Oliver, the "sommelier" with the impeccable taste and extensive knowledge of wine regions, was busy stocking shelves at a local liquor store.

She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The air in her kitchen felt thick, suffocating. She'd always been so proud of him, the way he could discern the nuances of a vintage. Her throat constricted. He’d never even *tasted* wine in any meaningful capacity. Just a charade.

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