frustrated - Story 51897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were shaking as she reread the feedback. "Lacks depth," the professor had written. "Needs further research." A 'C+'. She’d felt so confident during the presentation, so certain she had a grasp of the subject. Now, she felt a profound sense of inadequacy, a creeping sensation of something sour bubbling within her. She bit her lip, the taste of metal filling her mouth. The feeling urged her to withdraw, to shut down and avoid facing anyone.

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