frustrated - Story 51192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his thinning hair, the familiar motion doing little to soothe the mounting tension. "Mr. Henderson? Really?" Mark had thought he'd put all that behind him. Forty years. Forty years since he'd had to endure the man's dry wit and unrelenting demands for perfection. Now, his daughter, Emily, was in the crosshairs. He felt a tightening in his chest, a sensation he hadn't experienced since high school calculus. He really, really wasn't in the mood to deal with it all again.

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