frustrated - Story 51206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a silent tension as she surveyed the empty driveway. Her teeth were clenched so tightly, her jaw ached. She'd been inside for barely ten minutes.

A neon-yellow notice lay on the ground, a garish beacon of bad news. The violation: "Obstructing access."

The blood rushed in her ears, making her head pound. She pictured the tow truck driver, smirking as he drove away with her car. This situation filled her with pure indignation. This was not okay. Not at all.

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