frustrated - Story 51291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah slammed her phone onto the kitchen counter, the ceramic clattering against the granite. “Unbelievable,” she muttered, pacing the length of the room. She ran a hand through her hair, tugging at the strands. The balloon arch, the banner reading "Happy Birthday, Sarah!", the caterer’s confirmation email… all for nothing. Her best friend, Emily, was supposed to be the master organizer of the whole thing. Now? Nothing. Zero. Zip. The sheer effort of planning everything herself felt like a mountain in front of her.

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