frustrated - Story 51458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Fine. Whatever,” Maya said, her voice tight, the words barely escaping her lips. She shoved the test results back into the envelope, the paper crinkling under her furious grip. She stared out the window, at the vibrant, bustling city below, a place she suddenly felt completely alien in. She wanted to scream, to shatter something, to destroy the comfortable illusion she had lived with for thirty years. She crossed her arms, a barrier against a world that had suddenly become hostile.

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