"Just put the damn thing *there*!" Leo barked at his brother, Ethan, who was clumsily attempting to carry a cumbersome antique wardrobe down the narrow hallway. Ethan fumbled, the wardrobe tilting precariously. Leo’s jaw clenched. The house was already a maze, every corner crammed with his grandmother’s trinkets and relics. The cramped space felt even more constricting with all the furniture blocking his path. He slammed his hand on the wall, the plaster crumbling slightly. He had been planning a trip to the coast, but here he was, trapped.

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