frustrated - Story 51778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room was a low, constant drone, mirroring the ache in Clara’s head. She watched the lawyer explain the contents of the will, which clearly favoured her brother. He was gifted the family's tech company; she was left with a handful of patents and an office building, a money pit.

She crossed her arms tightly, the gesture failing to provide any comfort. A familiar heat rose in her cheeks. The injustice of it all was overwhelming.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them again. This was going to be a long day.

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