frustrated - Story 51265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was deafening. Sarah stared out the window, the passing scenery a blur of color and motion. A knot tightened in her stomach, a physical manifestation of the turmoil churning inside her. She replayed the tryout in her head, searching for the flaw, the mistake. She bit her lip, tasting the metallic tang of blood. The rhythmic thrum of the tires against the pavement seemed to amplify the pounding in her ears.

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