frustrated - Story 51248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital's parking garage felt suddenly claustrophobic. Maya gripped the steering wheel so hard her knuckles turned white. The paperwork—the wrong paperwork—was crumpled in the passenger seat. The erroneous diagnoses and list of medications felt like a physical weight, pressing down on her. The engine felt like it was suffocating her with it's fumes. She wanted to drive and drive and drive until she found peace, or at least, until she could forget this mess.

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