frustrated - Story 51310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the rising tension inside her. It was official: the new recruit was paid more. For the same role. After all the sacrifices. All the extra efforts. The late nights, the stress.

She leaned back in her chair, the leather squeaking. She could almost feel the weight of every ignored birthday, every postponed vacation, every cancelled dinner plan, pressing down on her shoulders. Her vision blurred, and the words on her screen swam before her.

She took a deep breath, the air in the office suddenly feeling stale and suffocating. She knew what she had to do.

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