"Again?" David's voice was sharp. He lowered his voice, the question directed at no one, when the incessant hammering began again. He gripped the steering wheel, his knuckles white. He’d barely managed to find parking on the street.

He took a deep breath, willing himself to be calm. He was already late for his appointment. The noise, the delays, the constant interruptions... it was all too much. He could feel the familiar knot forming in his stomach.

He turned off the engine, then switched it back on. He looked at his watch, his jaw clenched. He was losing it, and that was just not a good feeling. He needed to do something. Anything.

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:
S0.344
P0.302
exasper0.257
aggravated0.254
que0.252
Suppressed:
unfolding-0.242
otre-0.226
latter-0.220
☺️-0.216
soon-0.212