frustrated - Story 51831 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet was pristine, a monument to financial discipline. Sarah stared at the numbers, her jaw clenched. Years. Years of scrimping and saving, and all the while, Mark had this… this nest egg. The air in the study felt thick, suffocating. She slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet. A wave of heat washed over her, making her palms sweat.

She found him in the garden, whistling tunelessly as he pruned the roses. "Mark," she said, her voice tight. "We need to talk."

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