frustrated - Story 51635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Clara muttered, tossing the letter onto the already cluttered kitchen table. The ink had faded, but the bitterness of the words remained vibrant. She paced the room, her hands clenching and unclenching. It was a letter to her sister, a searing indictment of their fractured relationship. She remembered the arguments, the misunderstandings, the slow, agonizing drift apart. The anger felt the same.

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