frustrated - Story 51200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal’s office felt smaller than she remembered. She felt her chest tighten. She was supposed to be a calm, collected parent. Instead, all she could think about was *him*, Mr. Collins, his monotone voice, his relentless focus on rules. "We're having some trouble with your son, Alex," the principal said. She felt the blood drain from her face. She closed her eyes. It was all going to be exactly the same, wasn’t it?

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