frustrated - Story 51583 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slumped in her car, the engine idling. The station was playing "Starlight Serenade," the song she’d spent a year refining. A male voice, smooth and polished, was singing her words. He'd ruined it, sucked the soul out of it. She pounded the steering wheel. Her vision blurred with unshed tears. The sun glinted off the chrome, mocking her. She wanted to scream. She wanted to rewind the tape of her life and take back the choices that had led her here.

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