frustrated - Story 51945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You wrote what?” Jessica’s voice was a harsh whisper. She stared at the manuscript on the screen. The story, "A Portrait of Leo", was about their life together. It even included the argument they'd had last month about the overcooked vegetables. She couldn't believe it. She felt a heat rising in her chest, a burning sensation spreading outwards. Her eyes darted around the room, as though searching for an escape route. Her hands clenched and unclenched at her sides.

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