frustrated - Story 51707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Leo stared at the overflowing inbox, a tsunami of emails threatening to drown him. He felt suffocated, trapped under a mountain of tasks and demands. He ran a hand over his face, trying to clear the fog of weariness that clouded his mind. He just wanted it all to stop. He pushed away from his desk. "Right, that's enough," he declared. He observed Chloe, a new hire, sketching something. She was humming a melody. "Is that… 'Camp Counselor's Serenade'?" he asked, his voice flat.

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