frustrated - Story 51191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah slammed the car door a little harder than necessary. Another parent-teacher conference. Another opportunity for Mrs. Gable to tell her how little Timmy was paying attention. Sarah pinched the bridge of her nose, the fluorescent lights of the school hallway already assaulting her senses. The woman’s voice, a familiar sing-song, echoed from the classroom. Just the sound of it made her jaw clench. This was going to be a long afternoon.

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