frustrated - Story 51309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunch break was over, and Ben returned to his cubicle, the food in his stomach heavy, making him feel a bit sick. He’d just learned, from a casual chat with a colleague, that the new marketing assistant, fresh out of college, was earning more than he did. It seemed like the more he struggled, the more he earned less.

He sat down, the chair creaking under his weight. He didn't know what to do. His hands shook as he started to type. He felt a pressure building in his chest. A pressure that threatened to explode.

He suddenly wanted to break something.

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