frustrated - Story 51809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt like a pressure cooker. Olivia sat stiffly in her seat, arms crossed, watching the proceedings. The lawyer for her newly discovered half-brother was relentless, pressing with questions Olivia wasn't prepared to answer. A whole half-life hidden and now on display.

She clenched her jaw, the muscles in her neck tight. This was a legal battle she hadn't sought, a messy ordeal she had no desire to participate in. Her ex-husband was the one who had gotten her into this mess.

She shifted in her seat, feeling the weight of the situation pressing down on her. Her lawyer's reassuring glances only served to heighten her edginess. She wished she could just make this all go away.

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