frustrated - Story 51677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben like a physical blow. Dr. Lee, his mentor, was leaving. He wanted to shout. He wanted to break something. He picked up a stapler, toyed with it, and then set it back down. His normally calm demeanor had dissolved.

He leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to buzz with a relentless, irritating energy. He hadn’t felt this unsettled in years. The research seemed overwhelming now.

He knew he couldn’t give up, but the thought of starting fresh with another advisor, of explaining everything all over again… it was almost unbearable. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. This was a disaster.

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