frustrated - Story 51757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, filtering through the blinds, cast long shadows across the room, highlighting every speck of dust. Maria read the letter again, the fine print blurring before her eyes. She felt a sharp, sudden pain in her chest, a feeling she hadn't experienced in years. She pushed the letter away. The air felt too thin. She needed to breathe. She got up, pacing the small living room. Her steps were jerky, restless, like a trapped animal. She wanted to scream.

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