frustrated - Story 51158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call with Ben felt like a slow-motion car crash. He’d hoped, truly hoped, he had a chance. The initial email was optimistic, and the interview had gone well, or so he thought. Now, the polite regret in the recruiter’s voice was like a knife twisting. He’d been trying to be professional, but his hands shook so badly he could barely hold the phone. After the call ended, he wanted to smash the phone. He carefully placed the phone down and laid on his back, staring at the ceiling.

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