frustrated - Story 51558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that seemed to mirror the relentless drone of his own thoughts. She felt a throbbing sensation behind her eyes as she glanced at the empty space beside her on the sofa. She wanted a bird. A small, colorful parrot that could learn to talk and fill their apartment with bright sounds. Her roommate, Susan, had a long list of reasons why it would be a bad idea, including a lot of things she couldn't control.

She rose from the sofa, the movement jerky and quick. He paced the floor of the apartment, and the thought of getting nowhere gnawed at her. She felt a burning need to escape.

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