frustrated - Story 51797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped nail polish on her fingers mirrored the crumbling façade of the house itself. Maria shoved the paintbrush into the bucket of beige paint, splashing it across the fresh drywall with a vengeance. She'd wanted a fresh start, a space to create, but the constant shadow of the past, the knowledge of what had happened within these walls, was overwhelming. She had just found out about the previous owner. Now, she felt a wave of cold rush through 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