frustrated - Story 51413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop was too loud, the barista too cheerful, the queue too long. Maya drummed her fingers on the counter, each tap a miniature explosion of internal discontent. She needed that promotion, the one she’d busted her backside to get. The one she’d been passed over for, again. As she finally reached the front, her gaze fell upon a forgotten item on the counter: a wallet.

It was fat, promising. Maya took a deep breath, her shoulders rising up towards her ears. She opened it and felt a wave of dizziness when she saw the contents. Her breath hitched. The image of her meager savings account, the unpaid bills, flashed before her eyes.

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