frustrated - Story 51549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maria sat on the edge of her son’s bed, the crumpled printouts of his secret Instagram messages scattered across the duvet. He was supposed to be at a study group. The messages, filled with cutting comments and secret meetups, told a different story.

She ran her hand over her face, the skin suddenly feeling dry and papery. The room swam into view. How could he? How could he lie to her, to his face?

"Unbelievable," she stated, her voice shaking. The anger was rising, bubbling to the surface.

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