frustrated - Story 51907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to dull, the canvases mocking her. Emily, a budding artist, stared at her half-finished painting, a portrait of hope. Now, that hope felt like a cruel joke. Her fingers twitched, itching to grab a brush, but the fire had gone out. A tear traced a path down her cheek, and she furiously swiped at it, determined not to give in to the well of emotion threatening to erupt. She picked up her bag and left the studio, the unfinished painting a symbol of what she had lost.

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