frustrated - Story 51633 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup hit the counter with a loud *thunk*. Sarah, ignoring the spill, reached for the letter again. It was a time capsule, a snapshot of her younger self’s naïve ambition. The words dripped with a desperate longing, a yearning that now seemed ridiculous. Her eyes narrowed as she reread the ambitious plans she had laid out. She kicked at the leg of the table, her breath hitching. The present felt miles away from that hopeful girl.

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