frustrated - Story 51684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, that's not how you hold the pick!" Sarah snapped, her voice sharper than intended. Her fingers ached from the incessant practice. Her guitar, once her solace, now felt like a battleground. Her daughter, Maya, insisted on guitar lessons, demanded to learn all the same songs. Every spare moment was filled with Maya's off-key strumming and constant questions. The house felt smaller, the silence more valuable. Sarah closed her eyes. It used to be a way to express herself. She longed to feel that again.

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