frustrated - Story 51487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure you want to go through with this, Mrs. Davies?” The lawyer’s voice was smooth, professional, but it did little to soothe the knot in her stomach. Sarah nodded sharply, her gaze fixed on the papers laid out on the table.

She signed her name with a flourish, the pen scratching against the page. It was a practiced move, the final, official act. A wave of heat washed over her, making her palms sweat.

Her chest felt tight, constricted. She wanted to smash the table. "Can we just hurry this up?" she asked.

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