frustrated - Story 51710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Jessica stared at the pile of invoices, each one a testament to her endless workload and her lack of free time. The late nights and early mornings had started to blur together. She felt exhausted, stretched thin, and completely drained. "I can’t believe this," she muttered, her voice barely a whisper. She looked up and noticed Sam, a new coworker, across the office. He was wearing a lanyard and singing. "That's…the 'Bonfire Ballad'," she asked, her voice shaky.

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