frustrated - Story 51186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hey, I'm just… catching up with a friend," Mark had said the previous night, his voice carefully neutral. But the way he'd flinched when she entered the room, the way he’d quickly ended the call, had set off a chain reaction in her mind. Now, at breakfast, a tight knot resided in her stomach.

She poked at her eggs, suddenly unable to swallow. Each bite felt like a chore. The air felt thin, and she found herself struggling to take a deep, full breath. She needed to know, but the thought of confrontation paralyzed 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