frustrated - Story 51919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She forced a smile, knowing the tremor in her hands probably gave her away. The neighbor, beaming, had just made a seemingly innocent suggestion. But it was *the tree.* The woman's sanctuary.

"Well," she began, the word catching in her throat, "that's something to think about, isn't it?" She blinked rapidly, trying to regain her composure. Her head throbbed.

She turned away, pretending to examine the roses that weren't blooming. She desperately needed to be 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