frustrated - Story 51663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, unforgiving steel of the elevator walls seemed to be closing in on her. The silence, punctuated only by the occasional groan of the machinery, was an oppressive blanket. She started pacing, a tight, nervous energy vibrating through her.

“Do you think they’ve even *looked* for us yet?” she asked, her voice sharp. She kept glancing at her watch, the seconds ticking by like tiny, mocking hammers.

He just sighed, leaning back against the wall with his arms crossed. She had half a mind to yell at him.

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