The silence in the workshop was deafening. Liam ran his calloused hand over the smooth wood of the uncompleted table, the feeling of the wood strangely cold against his skin. He needed Mr. Davies's advice, his steady hand, the years of experience that he had relied on. That note pinned to the door had been it. “Gone fishing. Good luck.” The lack of detail, the casual dismissiveness, was infuriating. He kicked a stray piece of wood, the sound of the impact echoing in the vast space. A low growl escaped his throat.

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