frustrated - Story 51805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again, shattering the silence of the antique shop. Clara snatched it up, her hand shaking slightly. The social worker, again. More questions, more probing about the half-brother she hadn't known existed. She bit her lip, a habit she hadn't realized she still had.

The social worker, as always, sounded gentle and empathetic. Clara's stomach churned as she listened to the woman's solicitous questions. This was all so utterly intrusive, a violation of her privacy. She’d worked so hard to build her carefully curated life.

Clara abruptly ended the call. She walked back to the counter, her mind a whirlwind of unwelcome information. She stared at the display of antique jewelry, her vision blurring, her chest tightening. How dare they?

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