frustrated - Story 51185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the phone down, the plastic case hitting the table with a sharp crack. His heart was hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence. It was always a quick conversation, lasting only a few minutes. Then, always, the same hollow excuse.

He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest. His breath hitched in his throat. He strode towards the window, wanting to open it, to breathe, but his legs were weighted with a deep heaviness. The world was spinning.

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