frustrated - Story 51321 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The review sat on the counter, a crumpled testament to her failure. Chef Isabella slammed a fist onto the stainless steel, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet kitchen. She hadn't slept in days, pouring every ounce of her being into the new tasting menu. And for what? To be eviscerated by that… that *critic*. Her chest tightened. She snatched a paring knife, the steel glinting under the harsh overhead lights, and attacked a basket of ripe tomatoes with brutal, rapid chops.

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