frustrated - Story 51785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph of the front porch, now meticulously landscaped, made Chloe's stomach churn. She scrolled through the pictures, each one a fresh stab. The realtor's jaunty descriptions of the newly renovated master bathroom felt like an insult. She stood up, pacing the length of her tiny apartment. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. Each picture was like a punch to the gut. Why couldn't they leave it alone?

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