frustrated - Story 51108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again, pulling him from his attempt to focus on his packing. "Yes, I can help you… again," George replied, his voice laced with forced patience. It was the new guy, asking another question about something George had just explained. George rubbed his eyes, feeling the exhaustion settle deep in his bones. He wanted to be done, finished, out of this office and never looking back. "Okay," he said, his voice barely a whisper, "Let's go over it one more time."

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