frustrated - Story 51187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The muscles in her shoulders were tense, a constant ache that radiated down her back. Every time the phone rang, she jumped. She'd been feeling this way for weeks, ever since she noticed the hushed conversations, the secretive smiles.

She crossed her arms, hugging herself. The air in the room felt stale, the walls closing in. She hated this feeling of being out of control. Her nails dug into the flesh of her arms.

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