He paced in front of the window, watching the rain beat against the glass. The news had hit him like a physical blow. Ms. Davies, the woman with the perpetually disapproving frown, was teaching young Leo. He recalled the countless detentions, the stinging criticism, the way she made him feel small. His hands balled into fists, his knuckles turning white. He thought of all the things he wanted to say to Ms. Davies after 20-some years.

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