frustrated - Story 51995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Clara hissed under her breath, her fingers clenching into fists. The words on the screen blurred slightly, reflecting the light from her laptop. Her application essay, her messy, heartfelt story, was now a public commodity. How had this even happened? A burning sensation erupted in her cheeks.

She abruptly stood up and began pacing, the wooden floorboards groaning under her weight. The essay felt like a precious secret, a fragile thing that she'd entrusted to a stranger. This feeling had now been violated. She felt the urge to destroy something, anything to alleviate the tightness in her chest.

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