frustrated - Story 51652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest inside Leo. He'd been stuck in traffic for an hour, inching forward like a snail in molasses. He’d promised Maya he'd pick up her dry cleaning, then the cake. He grabbed his phone and started to type, "Stuck, will be late." He frowned, deleting the last word. “On my way,” he typed, with a hint of gritted teeth, and hit send. A beat later, a message popped back: “Who is this?” It wasn’t Maya. It was his mother.

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