frustrated - Story 51109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunch break was a distant memory, replaced by the relentless reality of training her successor. "Okay, so you just click here… and then…" Susan trailed off, her eyes fixed on the coffee stain on the table in front of her. She’d already said this, explained this, demonstrated this. The new girl, Lisa, stared back, her expression blank. Susan felt a muscle twitch in her cheek. She pushed her chair away from the desk. "Let's take a break," she said, her voice a low monotone. "I need some air."

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