frustrated - Story 51857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the old house was getting to her. Chloe felt her stomach twist. She couldn't believe her mother, a woman who rarely stepped outside of her comfort zone, wanted to go skydiving. She kept trying to work her way through the storage room.

The list had "Fall in Love" written in large, looping letters. What was she supposed to do with this? She pushed it aside and started to rummage through a box. It was a complete disaster, a mess of memories. She slammed the box shut. She just wanted to be home.

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