frustrated - Story 51537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The muscles in her shoulders were rigid, and a headache was brewing behind her eyes. "Are you kidding me?" Chloe whispered, her voice barely audible above the gentle hum of the library. It was a mistake. They were giving her scholarship away. To someone else. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white. She had been so relieved when she received that initial email. Now, the weight of the rejection felt unbearable.

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