frustrated - Story 51439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes narrowed as she reread the recipe. "Esmeralda's Empanadas" – clearly adapted from "Maria's Marvelous Empanadas", the ones she had spent countless hours perfecting. This woman had completely stolen her work! She was practically spitting. The insult was profound.

She grabbed a pen, and furiously scribbled on a piece of paper. She felt the sudden urge to shred the article to pieces. She let out a small, frustrated sigh. "They didn't even change the name of the filling," she muttered, her voice barely a whisper. She threw the pen across the kitchen and went and opened a bottle of wine.

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