frustrated - Story 51217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The stage was set up at the town square!" Emily insisted, her voice raised in disbelief. "Everyone was watching from the benches." Across from her, Sarah was sipping her tea, barely even looking up.

"It was in the school gymnasium, Emily. The acoustics were much better there." Sarah had a gentle tone, but her eyes gave her away.

Emily tapped her foot on the floor. It felt tight, like her head was going to explode. The wind had been biting, and the crisp autumn air had given the performance a magical sheen. It was just… there. The memory, so vivid. This was infuriating.

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