frustrated - Story 51600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the email settled on her, a physical presence. The words echoed in her mind: "not what we're looking for." She felt a sudden, sharp pain in her chest.

She went to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of water, taking several large gulps. She then opened the fridge and stared at the contents, not knowing what she wanted.

She slammed the door shut and sat down at the table, her hands trembling. She leaned forward, resting her head on her arms. A silent sob shook her body.

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