frustrated - Story 51105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed through the window, making the office even hotter. Maria tapped her pen against the desk, the rhythm a rapid staccato against the silence. She had explained the same process to David, her replacement, four times now. "So, you just… input the data here?" David asked, pointing at the wrong field. Maria closed her eyes, took a breath, and slowly began again. The muscles in her neck were tight, and she could feel the edges of her teeth grating together.

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