frustrated - Story 51755 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman had barely left before she ripped open the envelope. The words, so carefully chosen, felt like a deliberate insult. Emily felt a heat rise in her chest, a burning sensation that spread through her veins. She crumpled the letter, her grip so tight that her nails left crescent-shaped marks on her palm. She threw it across the room. The cheap paper barely made it halfway, landing in the middle of the carpet. She could feel her heartbeat in her throat. She needed to move, to do something. Anything.

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