frustrated - Story 51539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the classroom felt thick, heavy. Isabella chewed on her lip, a nervous habit she hadn't realized she had. The email. She reread it again and again, as if the words would somehow change. The scholarship had been awarded to another student. The denial. It was all a mistake. She slumped in her chair, the sudden weight of her backpack seeming to pull her down. Her carefully constructed world was suddenly askew, and she didn't know how to fix it.

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