frustrated - Story 51629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies usually lifted Clara’s spirits. Today, however, the scent felt cloying, the sweetness unwelcome. She stared at the plate, unable to touch them.

Ms. Garcia, her photography teacher, had started following her. She'd posted her most personal work, the things she thought were beautiful and thought-provoking. Now, the pictures seemed like a vulnerable confession.

She pictured Ms. Garcia’s judging gaze. Her stomach churned. The cookies lost their appeal. The studio felt like a pressure cooker. She wanted to run.

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