frustrated - Story 51855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment felt like a cage. Amelia picked up the bucket list, the paper thin and worn. "See the pyramids." "Ride a hot air balloon." She tossed it onto the overflowing desk, scattering pens and paperclips.

She was already late for her meeting. She’d been sorting through her father’s things for weeks. He'd always been so practical. Now this… this list, filled with unfulfilled dreams. She picked up a teacup and smashed it against the fireplace. She needed an escape.

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