frustrated - Story 51180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The irony was not lost on him as he stood in the "creative agency" waiting room. The walls were plastered with ads. Across the room was the so-called "creative director," Alex, who was now mopping the floor.

A sharp, almost physical, ache pulsed in his temples. He'd listened to Alex's grand pronouncements about marketing and branding, had even considered asking him for a job. He could feel his face flush, the heat rising in a wave from his neck. He felt like he'd been punched.

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