frustrated - Story 51639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was tight. "Really?" She slammed the letter down on the table, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet room. The letter, penned in elegant cursive, was a declaration of love she'd never dared to send. The memory of the missed opportunity, of the unspoken feelings, caused her to pace, her steps quick and agitated. She yanked the curtains closed, plunging the room into shadow. She wanted to scream.

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