frustrated - Story 51928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital cafeteria smelled of stale coffee and disinfectant, a combination that made Sarah’s stomach churn. She pushed the tray of food away, the bland meal suddenly repulsive. The nurses kept telling her to eat, to stay strong, but she felt like she was decaying from the inside out. The doctor’s final assessment had felt like the last straw.

She watched a man fumble with his fork, his hands trembling. He made a low sound, a noise Sarah recognized all too well.

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