frustrated - Story 51828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheets swam before him. He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging his glasses, pushing them back up his nose. He’d put in the hours, the nights. He’d sacrificed everything to get this market analysis done. He had a plan. This was supposed to be his chance.

He read the other firm's report and felt a wave of nausea. The same projections. The same conclusions. The same strategies. He leaned back in his chair, feeling deflated. His throat felt tight, and he struggled to swallow.

He looked at the empty coffee cup on his desk. He slammed his fist on the table, trying to release the tension.

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