frustrated - Story 51395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt cold and sterile, mirroring the ice that had settled around Clara's heart. Her interview had been a disaster, the interviewer's sharp questions and condescending tone leaving her feeling hollowed out. She'd sought refuge amongst the silent stacks, hoping to find a semblance of peace.

She had chosen a volume of poetry, anything to lose herself in words. But even the verses, usually a comfort, felt distant, inaccessible. She tossed the book onto the table.

She picked it up again, intending to abandon it, when something fell out. A pressed flower, and a folded paper, hidden within.

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