frustrated - Story 51708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the breakroom felt thick and stale, mirroring the unpleasantness that had been building inside Rachel all day. The meeting had been a disaster, the presentation went flat, the coffee tasted like dirt. She had just needed a moment, a second to catch a breath. She slumped into a chair, letting her head drop into her hands. "This is…" she started, her voice trailing off. Suddenly, she heard a giggle and looked up to see Alex, a new employee, skipping around, humming a song. "Is that...'Friendship Circle'?" she asked, her voice cracking.

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