frustrated - Story 51923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight felt like a physical weight on Clara’s shoulders as she waited in the cafe. She’d replayed the conversation with the specialist a dozen times in her head. Each time the doctor spoke, the more the anger and helplessness churned in her stomach. She felt a knot tighten in her throat as she gripped her coffee cup so hard she thought it might shatter.

A man at the next table, engrossed in his phone, suddenly coughed, a violent, hacking sound. Clara’s head snapped up. She knew that cough. It was the same one she made, the one that betrayed her weakness, the one that made her feel so... exposed.

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