frustrated - Story 51669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her mouth was dry, her lips pressed into a thin line. She desperately wanted a glass of water, and the thought of her upcoming evening plans, that were rapidly fading, made her temples throb.

She imagined herself walking along the beach, but it only amplified her mounting irritability. She wanted to be *there*, not in this metal box.

She felt her composure starting to unravel. She crossed her arms tightly, a defense against the mounting tide of her internal storm.

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