The sound of clicking keyboards filled the small office, a familiar background noise that now grated on Emily's ears. She watched as her replacement, Chloe, stumbled through a simple task. Emily drummed her fingers on the desk, the sound a frantic counterpoint to the clicking. "It's really not that hard," Emily muttered under her breath. Chloe looked up, her expression a mix of confusion and apology. Emily stood abruptly, walked to the window, and stared out. The world outside looked so much simpler.

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