frustrated - Story 51662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the gesture almost violent. The air in the metal box was stagnant and thick, like a stale joke. Inside his head, a relentless, internal drumbeat pounded in sync with the relentless *ding-ding-ding* of the useless call button.

"This is ridiculous," he muttered under his breath, the words tight and laced with a suppressed fury. He glared at the control panel, as if it was personally responsible for his predicament.

He felt his stomach twist, a knot of unease and mounting impatience. He pulled his tie loose, the silk suddenly choking him. He needed out. Now.

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