frustrated - Story 51736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email on his phone, the glowing screen reflecting in his wide eyes. "Los Angeles. New Job." The subject line was so short, so dismissive of the massive emotional impact that was about to hit him. He balled his fist, the phone pressed against his chest.

His breathing grew shallow, and he felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He went to the kitchen and grabbed a beer, taking a long, deliberate swig. The cold liquid did nothing to calm the fire that was suddenly raging inside him.

He pictured her, excitedly planning her move, and felt a wave of icy fury course through him. He tossed the beer bottle across the room.

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