frustrated - Story 51613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The caterers bustled around, setting up the buffet. Sarah watched them, hands clasped tightly in front of her. Her father, beaming, greeted guests with hearty handshakes and booming laughter. She wished she could feel the same joy. The speech was a problem, a persistent itch she couldn't scratch. The words stuck in her throat, thick and resistant. She had the perfect anecdotes; the heartfelt sentiments; the witty punchlines. Yet, whenever she attempted to put them together, they just…failed.

The floral arrangements looked vibrant. Too vibrant.

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