frustrated - Story 51318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“C’est très beau, n’est-ce pas?” John asked, his voice light with amusement as they walked the beach. The simple sentence, spoken in French, grated on her ears. It had come out so easily. Her own French was rusty, a source of constant embarrassment. She dug her toes into the sand, the grains feeling rough against her skin. She had wanted to teach him all about her heritage. He clearly wanted her to teach him. He was doing this, and she wasn't.

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