frustrated - Story 51692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The report was due. He knew it inside and out, the numbers, the projections, everything. But the words wouldn't come. The cursor blinked accusingly on the blank page. He kept deleting and rewriting the same first sentence, each attempt falling flat.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The meeting yesterday had been a disaster. She'd charmed them all, her voice soft, her arguments perfectly constructed. He was left feeling like an understudy, waiting in the wings.

He slammed his fist on the desk. The sound echoed in the otherwise silent office. He needed to get it together. He needed to win this. He had to.

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