frustrated - Story 51832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael felt his stomach knot. The bank statement lay open on the kitchen counter, a stark accusation. A whole other account, separate from their joint one. The audacity! He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The words blurred before his eyes. It was a cold Tuesday morning, and the coffee he'd poured felt like lukewarm dishwater.

He found Emily scrolling through social media, blissfully unaware. He cleared his throat. "Emily, can you come here for a sec?" His voice was clipped, short.

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