frustrated - Story 51665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat was becoming unbearable. Beads of sweat trickled down her temples, and her crisp business attire felt suddenly constricting. She tugged at her collar, a gesture of helplessness. She could practically taste the bitterness in the air.

She took a breath and shot a look at her companion. He was humming, oblivious. She wanted to scream.

She slumped against the wall, defeated. The weight of her missed plans and her wasted time pressed down on her.

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