frustrated - Story 51661 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights in the elevator flickered, adding insult to injury. Sarah slammed her palm against the call button again, a dull thud echoing in the confined space. Three hours. Three hours she'd been stuck with Mark, and her meticulously planned Friday evening was dissolving before her eyes.

Her jaw clenched, and she took a deep, shaky breath, attempting to calm the rapid thrumming in her chest. Mark was rambling about his stamp collection, a topic she found about as engaging as watching paint dry.

“Do you think they even *care* that we're stuck?” she finally blurted, her voice tight. She shifted her weight, the leather of her work shoes suddenly feeling too restrictive.

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