frustrated - Story 51313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, ‘amore mio’ is actually closer to... 'my love'?" Daniel asked, his voice thick with a fake Italian accent. Emily slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet room. She’d been trying to read. She’d been looking forward to this evening. He'd been learning Italian for months, and now, he’d started trying to speak it to her. She wanted to scream. She got up from the chair and walked into the kitchen, a coldness spreading through 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