frustrated - Story 51260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen seemed to taunt her. “By Oliver Reed.” The words swam before her eyes. This was the culmination of everything she'd worked for, her thesis, her dream - all taken from her. The sense of unfairness was overwhelming.

She slammed her fist on the desk, the impact resonating through her arm. The action didn't help. She wanted to scream, to rage, to tear something apart, but she knew she couldn't. She had to fight.

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