frustrated - Story 51307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers swam before Maria's eyes. It didn't make sense. She’d painstakingly crafted the presentation, she had worked tirelessly on the project. And yet, the entry-level salary for the new hire was higher than hers. A wave of heat rushed up her neck.

She clenched her hands into fists, resting them on the table. How could this be? She remembered the sacrifices she'd made, the networking events, the extra hours.

She needed to get out. She stood up, her legs wobbly. She grabbed her bag and walked out, her jaw locked.

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