He ripped the paper from the printer, crumpling the damning evidence in his fists. He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated fury coursing through his veins. He'd spent weeks on this project, sacrificing his social life, his sleep, his sanity. Now, they were implying he'd cheated? He threw the crumpled paper across the room.

He kicked the desk, the sharp pain in his foot doing nothing to quell the rage. He needed to get out, away from this suffocating environment. He stalked towards the door, his heart hammering against his ribs. The injustice of it all, the sheer absurdity, was almost unbearable.

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