frustrated - Story 51417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise of the city, the incessant demands on her time, were beginning to feel unbearable. Chloe felt a tight pressure in her chest, a feeling of being suffocated. She needed to escape. While walking, she spotted it: a wallet, lying discarded near a bus stop.

She bent to pick it up, her fingers trembling slightly. The contents were immediately apparent, a thick wad of bills. Her eyes narrowed. Thoughts of the vacation she'd been dreaming of - a place where everything was quiet and slow - danced in her head. She squeezed her eyes shut, then opened them.

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