frustrated - Story 51547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dryer hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the silence in the laundry room. Carol ran her hand over the soft fabric of a towel, the simple act failing to soothe her. She'd found her daughter's secret Tumblr blog, filled with angst-ridden poetry and images of a life she clearly felt stifled by at home.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the edge of the counter, steadying herself. All those conversations, all that reassurance. Had it all been for nothing?

"This," she muttered, the word a harsh exhale, "is absolutely infuriating."

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