frustrated - Story 51694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself pacing the hallway, back and forth, the polished floor reflecting his agitated silhouette. Each time he passed her office, the open door and inviting atmosphere grated on him.

“I just don't understand,” he muttered, his voice barely a whisper. He knew this promotion would solidify his standing in his industry. It would be life-changing, and now he was getting the feeling he had a very slim chance.

He stopped, his heart hammering against his ribs. He gripped his hands into tight fists. This wasn't fair. This shouldn't be happening.

He turned and strode back to his desk, determined to bury himself in work, to appear productive. He must appear that way for the next meeting.

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