frustrated - Story 51456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be real!” Claire hissed, pacing her tiny kitchen. The bright fluorescent light above the stovetop seemed to pulse, matching the frantic rhythm of her heart. She’d always considered her mother her best friend, the cornerstone of her world. The test results, however, told a different story. A different family. A different history. Claire slammed the refrigerator door shut, a harsh, violent sound that echoed in the small space.

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