frustrated - Story 51801 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug slammed onto the kitchen counter, sloshing lukewarm coffee onto the already stained surface. Amelia glared at the phone, its screen displaying the lawyer’s blandly cheerful face. Another voicemail. Another delay. This whole thing was a colossal waste of her time, a distraction from the already mountain of paperwork she was battling at work.

She ran a hand through her already messy bun, tugging at a few stray hairs. Why now? Why did this secret, this *sister* as the lawyer called her, have to rear her head just as the quarterly reports were due? Amelia felt a knot tighten in her stomach, a physical manifestation of her exasperation.

"Just tell me what I have to do," she snapped into the phone when she finally called the lawyer back. Her voice sounded sharper than she intended, a result of the simmering resentment she felt towards this whole situation. "I don’t have time for games."

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