frustrated - Story 51789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her teeth ground together. The new owners had even planted roses. The roses. She glared at the screen, her knuckles white as she gripped the mouse. The realtor’s overly enthusiastic prose about the "charming details" grated on her nerves. She felt a knot forming in her stomach. She needed to get away, to escape. She grabbed her keys and left, leaving the laptop open and displaying the abhorrent listing for all the world to see.

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