frustrated - Story 51261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard slipped from Maya's grasp, landing with a clatter on the gym floor. She watched the list of names, the coveted roster for the regional gymnastics team, blur before her eyes. Anger, sharp and biting, clawed at her throat. She clenched her jaw, the muscles in her face rigid. Hours and hours of training, the sacrifices, the bruises, all culminating in… this. She kicked a discarded water bottle across the room, the plastic skittering uselessly against the polished wood.

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