frustrated - Story 51666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the display panel, willing the numbers to change. Nothing. The stillness was maddening, the lack of movement making his skin crawl.

He pushed off the wall and began to pace. Each footfall echoed, a constant reminder of their confinement. He couldn't shake the picture of the mountain of paperwork that awaited him when they finally escaped.

He muttered some choice words under his breath. This was a nightmare.

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