frustrated - Story 51914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. "Could you consider…" The polite language grated on him. The man wanted the tree *gone*. Did he even appreciate it?

He tossed his phone onto the desk. The small, neat room felt suddenly claustrophobic, the walls closing in. He needed air.

He went to the window and stared at the towering oak, its branches reaching towards the sky. He wanted to scream. He wanted to rage. He wanted the world to just *leave him alone*.

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