frustrated - Story 51844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She was going to explode. Sarah slammed the phone down on the counter, the receiver bouncing. The children's shrieking had reached a fever pitch, blending with the sound of the neighbor's hammering and the incessant yipping of a small dog. She felt a burning heat rise up her neck, her cheeks flaming. Her hands were clenched into fists, the nails digging into her palms. She needed silence. Now. It felt as if her brain was about to pop.

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