frustrated - Story 51993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup wobbled precariously in Sarah's hand as she scrolled through the admissions website. Her palms were slick with sweat. Why? She felt a strong urge to toss the stupid coffee across the room. The selection had been a gamble, a risky maneuver that was now being broadcast to the world. She bit down on her lip, a sharp, angry gesture.

Her breathing hitched. The essay, her vulnerability, was now a teaching tool. It sat there, cold and impersonal, stripped of the context and emotion that had birthed it. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She knew other students would be dissecting her words, analyzing her life. She wished she had never submitted anything at all.

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