frustrated - Story 51159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the office was deafening. Sarah, the lucky one, was already at her desk, beginning her first day. He avoided her gaze, pretending to focus on the paperwork on his desk. Each click of her keyboard, each rustle of a paper, was a reminder of his loss. He felt a persistent throb behind his eyes. He got up abruptly and went to the water cooler, anything to avoid the palpable atmosphere of achievement and disappointment.

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