frustrated - Story 51314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with the quiet tension in the car. Sarah tapped her fingers on her knee, staring out the window as they drove. Michael, beaming, was recounting his day. He'd used some Spanish in a meeting, apparently, and everyone was impressed. She heard him stumble over the words, and a strange pressure built behind her eyes. He’d signed up for a class three months ago. She hadn’t. The car felt smaller, the space between them suddenly vast.

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