“Unbelievable!” David slammed the phone down on the table, the force of the action rattling the porcelain. He had been planning the launch, depending on Mr. Chen's expertise, the years of knowledge he had painstakingly acquired. And now? A brief email, a canned farewell. He felt a hot flush rush over him, and he instinctively loosened his tie. He stared out the window, at the bustling street below, the noise and the movement somehow amplified, assaulting his senses. He needed a drink, a strong one.

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