frustrated - Story 51253 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis as Maya read the byline. “By Eleanor Vance.” Eleanor Vance? The editor! Maya’s hands, moments ago typing furiously, went limp at her sides. All that work, all that late night typing, and it was gone. Stolen.

She felt a tremor run through her body. Her carefully constructed argument, her passion for the subject, now reduced to a footnote in someone else's career. She pressed a hand against her chest, feeling a pressure building. How could they?

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