frustrated - Story 51293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you kidding me?" Maria burst out, her voice sharp enough to cut glass. She gripped the phone so tightly her knuckles were white. The meticulously crafted invitations, the venue booked, the DJ confirmed… all down the drain. Her breath hitched, and she felt a tremor in her hands. Months of anticipation, weeks of secret planning, for…this. She threw the phone onto the couch, the impact making a small, hollow sound. She wanted to disappear.

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