frustrated - Story 51556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just… I don't understand," she muttered, her voice barely above a whisper. Her jaw throbbed, and she felt the muscles in her neck tighten. The thought of a small dog, eager and happy, had been the one thing keeping her afloat during a rough patch at work. But her roommate, Ben, simply would not budge. He claimed he didn't have the time to devote to a pet.

The tiny apartment felt smaller, the walls closing in. She scrubbed at her eyes, trying to clear the blurry vision. The thought of all the cuddles, of the companionship, it felt so close, so achievable, but now it felt like a dream.

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