frustrated - Story 51967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead light in the attic flickered, casting long, dancing shadows that seemed to mirror the turmoil in her gut. He had a bucket list? She'd been a fool. The list sat open on a dusty trunk, the print clear and sharp, almost mocking. “Go to Japan.” “Learn to speak Mandarin.” “Write a cookbook.” A muscle twitched in her jaw.

She kicked the trunk. A cloud of dust rose. The air smelled of decay. She pulled her coat tighter around herself, even though the room wasn't cold. What was she doing wrong?

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