frustrated - Story 51917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman watched the smoke from the grill curl up towards the sky. The smell of barbecue, usually a source of comfort, now only seemed to mock her. The barbecue, a neighbor's request. Everything was a request.

Her shoulders slumped. Her husband appeared at her side. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"Nothing," she replied, a tight line to her mouth. She gestured towards the tree. "Just another thing. He needs more sunlight. He wants it gone."

Her eyes burned. She wished the entire world would just stop asking things of her, leave her alone.

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