"This is unbelievable," David muttered, his voice barely a whisper, yet laced with an icy edge. He felt a sharp throb in his temples, a headache blooming with each passing minute. He drummed his fingers on the armrest of the uncomfortable plastic chair, an impatient rhythm against the hum of the airport. He glanced around at the other passengers, their faces reflecting the same shared misery, and felt a surge of resentment. His daughter's recital… gone. He let out a frustrated sigh, then quickly inhaled, trying to regain some composure.

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