frustrated - Story 51181 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the pans against the stovetop echoed in the otherwise quiet kitchen. Sarah slammed the spatula down, nearly missing the pan altogether. Another late night for Mark. Always. She huffed, wiping her sweaty palms on her jeans. He’d promised dinner, but the promise, like so many others lately, lay shattered on the floor.

A chill crawled up her spine as she heard the familiar chime of a text message. Picking up Mark’s phone, left carelessly on the counter, she noticed a notification from "Liam." Rolling her eyes, she was about to put it back when another notification appeared, this one a reminder. "10:00 PM Call with…" the name was hidden. Her stomach twisted.

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