frustrated - Story 51664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced his leg, the movement a frantic rhythm against the smooth floor. The small, enclosed space amplified the sound, a persistent tick that chipped away at his composure. The air was dry, and his throat felt like sandpaper.

He considered the implications of missing his important meeting; his promotion was at stake. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, and squeezed his eyes shut.

He took a long breath, and opened them again. The lights had gone dim. This was not his day.

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