frustrated - Story 51257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before her eyes. The opening reception, meant to be a celebration, felt like a mockery. Her essay, the centerpiece of the exhibit’s catalog, was attributed to “Arthur Finch.” Arthur Finch, the gallery owner, who had clearly stolen it.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She excused herself, retreating into the quiet of a side room, away from the polite chatter and the undeserved congratulations. She was on the verge of collapsing.

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