frustrated - Story 51312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows as Maya rummaged through the takeout containers. Across the living room, David was on the phone, a low murmur of Korean escaping his lips. Maya’s hands shook as she picked at the dumplings. It felt wrong, his easy fluency. They'd been together for five years, and she had never pushed herself to learn his language. Now he was fluent, moving forward while she stood still. A wave of irritation washed over her, making her jaw clench.

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