frustrated - Story 51196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the note crumpled in her hand, the words of the message blurring slightly through her tears. "Please call about David’s behavior in Mr. Thompson’s class." She felt the sting in her eyes. It was just like it had been, the constant calls, the endless worrying. This time it was her son. He was going to face the man with the gravelly voice and the same impossible expectations. She closed her eyes, a wave of weariness washing over 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