frustrated - Story 51616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're the one giving the speech, huh?" Her brother's casual question, posed as they loaded the car with picnic supplies for a pre-party outing, set her teeth on edge. Emily stiffened, forcing a smile she didn't feel. The casualness was maddening. Her mother’s impending retirement felt like a mountain she had to climb. Each word she wrote felt forced, unnatural. She just wanted to be done with it.

"Yeah," she replied, her voice flat. "Guess so." She then began meticulously organizing the silverware.

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