frustrated - Story 51781 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laptop screen glared at Amelia. "Charming Colonial in Prime Location!" it crowed, as if the peeling paint and overgrown azalea bushes were somehow appealing. She slammed the lid shut, the click echoing in the otherwise silent apartment. Her jaw clenched. Everything felt tight, like a fist in her chest. She needed a walk, a long walk. She grabbed her coat, not bothering to look in the mirror, and slammed the door behind her.

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