frustrated - Story 51498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Impossible,” Amelia breathed, her voice a thin whisper. She slowly lowered the glasses to the counter. The other company's virtual reality head gear was the same as hers. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She clenched and unclenched her fists, trying to relieve the tension. She’d envisioned this project for months, dedicated so many waking hours. It couldn’t be true. She took a deep breath, and it felt shallow. She turned and walked out of the room.

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