frustrated - Story 51278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the filing room felt thick and stale, a stark contrast to the lively atmosphere of the advertising agency. Michael, now a file clerk, felt a prickling sensation behind his eyes as he looked at the boxes of paperwork. The smell of old paper and dust filled his nostrils.

He shoved a stray lock of hair from his forehead, pushing at the paper with his fingertips. The transfer had been abrupt, the explanation vague. He felt trapped.

He closed his eyes for a moment, picturing the vibrant posters he used to work on. He felt his jaw tighten, his hands curling into fists. He had to escape this limbo.

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