frustrated - Story 51280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the legal department was almost tangible, a stark contrast to the lively chatter of the marketing team. Emily felt a shiver run down her spine as she stared at the dense legal documents. She had once enjoyed the thrill of brainstorming sessions and creative campaigns, but now…

Her fingers tapped impatiently on the desk. She reread the email, the words now blurring before her eyes. The air felt heavy, oppressive, a stifling weight on her chest.

She abruptly stood up, feeling a wave of dizziness. She needed to breathe, to escape this… this purgatory. She wanted to scream.

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