frustrated - Story 51485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated insistently in her hand. Emily ignored it. She couldn’t bring herself to answer another well-meaning call, another platitude about “letting go” and “moving on.” She needed to be here, to witness the final act.

She pulled the car over on a side street, near enough to see, not close enough to be noticed. Watching the house from a distance felt like a betrayal. The windows seemed to glower, empty sockets staring back at her. Her jaw clenched.

She slammed the car in park and stepped out. "Stupid!" she hissed under her breath, kicking the side tire. She didn't want to cry, but she felt a pressure building in her chest.

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