frustrated - Story 51348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The argument with her sister had left a bitter taste in her mouth. Every word, every accusation, stung. She felt raw and exposed, her emotions a jumbled mess. She needed to get away, to clear her head. The silence of the car was deafening.

She saw the yard sale and pulled over, desperate to distract herself. Amidst the chaos of discarded belongings, a familiar face peeked from a box. Barnaby.

The sight of the bear brought a flood of conflicting emotions. She didn’t know how much longer she could keep it together.

“How much?” she demanded, the question sharp and clipped. The seller, a little girl with pigtails, said, "A quarter." She handed over the money and clutched the bear to her chest, the soft fur offering no solace.

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