frustrated - Story 51783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Updated Kitchen! Granite Countertops!" Sarah read aloud, the words tasting like ash in her mouth. She tossed her phone onto the kitchen counter. Her breathing hitched. The house looked… different. Smaller, somehow. The vibrant green shutters, repainted a sterile grey. She grabbed a dish towel, her hands moving erratically as she began wiping down the already spotless countertop. It was like a film had settled over her, a constant hum that vibrated through her bones.

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