frustrated - Story 51713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The eviction notice seemed to pulse with a malevolent energy, lying on the otherwise clean countertop. Sarah pushed it away with the back of her hand as if it might contaminate her. Her breath hitched in her throat, shallow and rapid. Her pulse hammered in her ears.

She felt a sudden urge to clean, to scrub something until it sparkled, but she knew it wouldn't solve anything. The knot in her stomach tightened. "This isn't fair," she whispered, her voice barely audible. Her gaze darted around the apartment, assessing its meager contents.

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