frustrated - Story 51234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taste of bile rose in Emily's throat as she scrolled through the website. She'd been a different person then, naive and dramatic. Now, her inner monologue was a harsh criticism of her younger self. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

She slammed the laptop closed, the sound sharp in the quiet room. Her hands were clenched into fists, her nails digging into her palms. She needed to do something, anything, to stop the digital parade of her past. She felt trapped, suffocated by the online exposure.

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