frustrated - Story 51787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Open House This Weekend!" the headline blared. Olivia felt her vision blur. She ran a hand through her hair, tugging at the strands. The neatly arranged furniture in the photos, the staged perfection, was sickening. She got up from the couch and started to organize her magazines, even though they were already perfectly aligned. Her movements were jerky, as if her body was reacting without her permission. The house was not supposed to be like this.

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