frustrated - Story 51126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blinking red light on the automated baggage carousel, his chest constricting. The familiar metallic clanging was now an irritating soundtrack to his predicament. Michael’s shoulders slumped. He’d booked this trip to surprise his best friend at his retirement party, and now, it was ruined. All the meticulously planned details, the carefully chosen gift, the heartfelt speech – all reduced to nothing. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the rough stubble of his beard, and let out a long, slow breath.

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