frustrated - Story 51255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The injustice of it all throbbed in her head, a dull ache behind her temples. Maria stared at the magazine, the glossy cover mocking her. “By Kevin Miller.” A name that felt alien, unfamiliar, to the very words she wrote. She hated the smile plastered on Kevin Miller’s face.

She felt the urge to pace, back and forth, unable to settle. She needed to vent. She texted her friend, typing furiously, the words tumbling out in a rush of furious emotion. This was wrong, utterly wrong.

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