frustrated - Story 51130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed his bag and started walking towards the airline employee, each step deliberate and stiff. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to buzz louder, amplifying the irritation inside him. His carefully crafted itinerary, meticulously followed for weeks, was now meaningless. He pictured his brother’s surprise 40th birthday, the planned toast, the shared laughter. It was all vanishing. He stopped in front of the counter. “What’s the actual reason?” he asked, his voice flat.

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