frustrated - Story 51965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Clara breathed, her voice barely a whisper. She threw the crumpled paper onto the bed, watching it land with a soft thud. Her chest felt constricted, making it hard to take a full breath. Across the room, she could hear the soft hum of the refrigerator. The list, found tucked away in a dusty drawer, was a testament to his ambition: "Sail around the world." "Climb Mount Kilimanjaro." "Learn to code." He hadn't even mentioned any of this to her.

She stalked across the room, needing to move, to do something. She picked up a nearby picture frame and slammed it back onto the dresser. The glass shuddered in the frame. A wave of resentment washed over her.

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