frustrated - Story 51363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around Sarah, stealing the breath from her lungs. She tugged at her scarf, the icy air stinging her cheeks. The mailbox yielded its usual haul of junk mail and then... a birthday card. An unsigned birthday card. Her hands felt clumsy as she read the generic well wishes.

She almost threw it away right then. It felt like an intrusion, an unwelcome reminder of the date. She was already juggling three jobs and a demanding parent. The card was the last thing she needed. She slammed the door, her heart rate elevated.

The thought of someone knowing her birthday and not personally addressing her made her feel a weird, itchy feeling, like ants crawling all over her skin. She had to take a long, hot shower to calm down.

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