frustrated - Story 51184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steam from her coffee fogged up the windowpane as she watched Mark leave the house. He was always on his phone these days, hunched over and whispering, his brow furrowed in concentration. The car door slammed with a decisive thud.

She slammed her fist on the table, the ceramic mug rattling. A flash of heat surged through her. A feeling of dread settled in her gut, heavy and unwelcome. She knew, deep down, something wasn't right, and it was gnawing at her.

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