frustrated - Story 51110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, the cheap plastic creaking under his weight. The new hire, Brian, sat opposite him, looking utterly overwhelmed. It was, as usual, taking longer than expected. "So, about this software…" Brian began, his voice trailing off. Robert’s eyes narrowed. He looked at his hands, then at the clock, then at Brian again. The blood was pounding in his ears. He let out a long, slow sigh. "Right," he said, the word a clipped sound. "Let's try a different approach."

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