frustrated - Story 51193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup nearly slipped from her grasp as she reread the email: "Your son, Michael, is struggling in Mrs. Peterson's class." A sigh escaped her lips, a sound of weary resignation. *Mrs. Peterson.* Her mother, bless her heart, had loved the woman. "She's such a dedicated teacher," she’d said. *Dedicated* didn’t even begin to describe the woman’s ability to draw every ounce of enthusiasm and energy out of a classroom, at least that's what it felt like. Now, it was her son's turn to face the same, exacting gaze. A knot formed in her stomach.

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