frustrated - Story 51619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her palms were sweating. The microphone, sitting on the podium, seemed to glare at her. She fiddled with the fabric of her dress, her fingers tracing the intricate pattern. Everyone expected her to say the right things, to express the appropriate amount of gratitude and affection. It was such a burden. She felt a heat rising in her chest, a prickling sensation that made her want to bolt.

She took a deep breath, fighting to keep the tremor out of her voice.

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