frustrated - Story 51474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Not again," she muttered under her breath, her voice tight. The delivery driver, a young man with a bored expression, offered a sheepish grin. He probably didn't know her struggle. She grabbed the package, her grip almost crushing the cardboard. This was the fifth time this month. Five! She muttered "Thanks," her tone curt, and slammed the door with a force that rattled the frames. She threw the box onto the already overflowing recycling bin.

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