frustrated - Story 51929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The board meeting was a blur of voices and gestures. Alex struggled to focus, the words swimming before his eyes, his head pounding. The room felt stifling, the air thick with tension. He just wanted it to be over. He was drowning.

During the break, he stumbled outside, desperate for fresh air. There, leaning against the wall, was a man clutching his head. He recognized the pained expression. He recognized the struggle.

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